Abstract
The present study focuses upon pre-operative planning strategy for cryosurgical treatment of multiple regularly shaped tumours inside a three dimensional liver tissue. Numerical simulations provide an optimal framework to predict the number of cryo-probes, their placement, operation time and thermal necrosis to the tumour and surrounding healthy tissues. An efficient cryosurgery process requires keeping the tumour cell under lethal temperature which is between −40 °C to −50 °C. The freezing process of undesired tumour tissues involves phase transition from liquid phase to solid phase, the accurate capturing of transition front and size or location of ice balls generated in the process are the important factors of cryosurgery. In this study, fixed domain heat capacity method has been utilized to take into account the latent heat of phase change in bio-heat transfer equation. The ice balls generated with different number of probes haven been analysed. Numerical simulations have been carried out using standard Finite Element Method with COMSOL 5.5 and results obtained are validated with previous studies.
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