Numerical Comparison of Active Shielding Techniques for Magnetic Fluid Hyperthermia Application

Abstract

This study aims to eliminate magnetic field leakage at 100 kHz with active shielding in Magnetic Fluid Hyperthermia (MFH) system. First of all, the structural and operational features of the MFH system were analyzed. Then, the active regions of the coils were determined, graphical results were obtained and the designs were compared with each other. We first simulated the magnetic field distribution of a circular coil active shielding system by the commercial software tool COMSOL Multiphysics. Secondly, a single D-shape shielding was configured in the MFH system and the size and location of the shielding were examined. The magnetic field attenuation percentages of the methods in the x, y, z axes and the target region selected as the representative tumor region were compared. The simulation results show that the shielding ability of the double D-shape shielding type is better in the x and y axes than the other coil types (51.43% for the x-axis and 95.77% for the y-axis). The fact that the attenuation percentage of this shielding type in the target region is 0.0287% is a secondary advantage. It has been observed that the attenuation in the z-axis is higher in other shielding types, but the attenuation percentage in the target region also increases.