Section: New Results

Cryoablation

In 2015, we carried on the work around thermal ablation and pre-operative planning based on a thermal Finite Element Model (FEM). The cryoablation technique consists in inserting needles that freeze the surrounding tissues, thus immediately leading to cellular death of the tissues. Cryoablation procedure is used in many medical fields for tumor ablation, and even starts being used in cardiology. In this scope, we built a simulator 10 able to place the cryoprobes and run a simulation representing the evolution of iceballs in living tissues.

Figure 10. Cryosurgery simulation with the creation of an iceball in the kidney