Water-filtered Infrared A (wIRA) Irradiation
From Research to Clinical Settings
Description:... Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Part I: Principles -- 1: Glossary Used in wIRA-Hyperthermia -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Recommended Terms -- 1.3 Occasionally Used, Obsolete, and Non-Recommended Terms -- 1.4 Empirical and Basic Data for wIRA Skin Exposures in Radiation Oncology and in Physical Therapy [8, 10-13] -- 1.4.1 Main Characteristics -- 1.4.2 Heating-up Times Necessary to Reach Thermal Steady-State Temperatures During wIRA-Hyperthermia in Normal Tissues [13] -- 1.4.3 Mean Steady-State Temperatures During wIRA-Hyperthermia in Normal Tissues and Human Cancers [11-13] -- References -- 2: From Sun to Therapeutic wIRA -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Generation of the Electromagnetic Radiation in the Sun -- 2.2.1 The Extra-Terrestrial Solar Spectrum -- 2.2.2 The Terrestrial Solar Spectrum -- 2.3 The Generation of Absorption Lines and Bands (Water Bands) in the Terrestrial Spectrum, Interaction Between Water Molecules, and Electromagnetic Radiation (Photons) -- 2.3.1 Structure of the Water Molecule and Hydrogen Bonding -- 2.3.2 Vibrations of the Water Molecule -- 2.3.2.1 Fundamental Vibrations -- 2.3.2.2 Combination Vibrations -- 2.3.2.3 Rotations -- 2.4 Generating Therapeutic wIRA -- 2.5 Comparison Between Therapeutic wIRA and the Terrestrial Solar Spectrum -- 2.6 The wIRA Radiator -- 2.6.1 Characteristics of Therapeutically Applied wIRA Irradiation -- 2.6.1.1 Setting the Desired Irradiance -- 2.6.1.2 Homogeneity of wIRA -- 2.6.1.3 Combination of Two wIRA Radiators -- 2.7 Conclusions -- References -- 3: Physical and Photobiological Basics of wIRA-Hyperthermia -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 wIRA: Infrared Radiation That Fits into the Optical Window of Tissues -- 3.3 Optical Effects of Interaction Between wIRA and Tissues.
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