Abstract
This paper describes heating properties of resonant cavity applicator with 3-D FEM knee model. We proposed a new heating method for knee rheumatism rehabilitation. In this paper, first, a method of reconstruct a 3-D anatomical human knee model from 2-D MRI and X-ray CT images was described. Second, proposed heating method was described. Third, we estimated a specific absorption rate (SAR) inside the anatomical human knee model by the finite element method (FEM). From these results, it was found that our method is useful to heat deep knee region.
