2012 年 36 巻 3 号 p. 161-168
The use of hyperthermia as a cancer therapy has become an important form of treatment along with radiation and chemotherapy. Magnetic-induction hyperthermia was developed about fifty years ago, and has evolved into new techniques based on recently developed nano-materials. Implant heating systems (IHS) have also evolved due to the use of nano-particles and grains of ferrites, iron, and magnetic alloys. Induction heating systems have two thermo-mechanisms of eddy currents and B-H hysteresis losses. Induction heating characteristics of thermo-mechanisms in these nanoscale materials were investigated for their use in controlling the hyperthermia temperature. The retarded trace method was introduced as a means of investigating hysteresis characteristics.