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Study of the Dependency of the Specific Power Absorption Rate on Several Characteristics of the Excitation Magnetic Signal when Irradiating a SPION-containing Ferrofluid
Journal of Magnetics, Volume 21, Number 3, 30 Sep 2016, Pages 460-467
Alejandra Mina Rosales * (Centre for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)), Elena Aznar (Unidad Mixta Universitat Politècnica de València – Universitat de València), Carmen Coll (Unidad Mixta Universitat Politècnica de València – Universitat de València), Rubén A. García Mendoza (Centre for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)), A. Lorena Urbano Bojorge (Centre for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)), Nazario Félix González (Centre for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)), Ramón Martínez-Máñez (Unidad Mixta Universitat Politècnica de València – Universitat de València), Francisco del Pozo Guerrero (Centre for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)), José Javier Serrano Olmedo (Centre for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM))
Abstract

Magnetic hyperthermia mediated by superparamagnetic particles is mainly based in sinusoidal waveforms as excitation signals. Temperature changes are conventionally explained by rotation of the particles in the
surrounding medium. This is a hypothesis quite questionable since habitual experimental setups only produce changes in the magnetic module, not in the field lines trajectories. Theoretical results were tested by changing the waveform of the exciting signal in order to compare non-sinusoidal signals against sinusoidal signals. Experiments were done at different frequencies: 200 KHz, 400 KHz, 600 KHz, 800 KHz and 1 MHz. Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide samples (SPION), made of magnetite (Fe3O4) and suspended in water (100 mg/ml), were used. Magnetic field strength varies from 0.1 ± 0.015 KA/m to 0.6 ± 0.015 KA/m. In this study was observed that the power loss depends on the applied frequency: for 1 to 2.5 RMS current the responses for each signal are part of the higher section of the exponential function, and for 3.5 to 8 RMS current the response is clearly the decrement exponential function’s tale (under 1 × 103 LER/gr).


 

Keywords: magnetic hyperthermia; superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle (SPION) ferrofluid; Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JMAG.2016.21.3.460
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