Issue 10, 2020

Fine tuning and optimization of magnetic hyperthermia treatments using versatile trapezoidal driving-field waveforms

Abstract

Applying trapezoidal driving-field waveforms to activate magnetic nanoparticles optimizes their performance as heat generators in magnetic hyperthermia, with notable advantages with respect to the effects of harmonic magnetic fields of the same frequency and amplitude. A rate equation approach is used to determine the hysteretic properties and the power released by monodisperse and polydisperse magnetite nanoparticles with randomly oriented easy axes subjected to a radio-frequency trapezoidal driving field. The heating ability of the activated nanoparticles is investigated by means of a simple model in which the heat equation is solved in radial geometry with boundary conditions simulating in vivo applications. Changes of the inclination of the trapezoidal waveform's lateral sides are shown to induce controlled changes in the specific loss power generated by the activated nanoparticles. Specific issues typical of the therapeutic practice of hyperthermia, such as the need for fine tuning of the optimal treatment temperature in real time, the possibility of combining sequential treatments at different temperatures, and the ability to substantially reduce the heating transient in a hyperthermia treatment are suitably addressed and overcome by making use of versatile driving fields of a trapezoidal shape.

Graphical abstract: Fine tuning and optimization of magnetic hyperthermia treatments using versatile trapezoidal driving-field waveforms

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
04 May 2020
Accepted
27 Aug 2020
First published
01 Sep 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale Adv., 2020,2, 4652-4664

Fine tuning and optimization of magnetic hyperthermia treatments using versatile trapezoidal driving-field waveforms

G. Barrera, P. Allia and P. Tiberto, Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 4652 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00358A

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