Selective excitation of metals for ablation

[anorred]

So I've heard of certain technologies that allow for heating of a certain type of metal inside of the body using external radiation. From what I understand, certain metals can be targeted while avoiding other metals. How does this "selective heating" process work.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Maybe it's as simple as the metals have very different tolerances to heat. I'd be very interesting in hearing an explanation as well!

 

[berkeman]

Here's a short article about it. I don't know where the research is at the moment, or if they have published any peer-reviewed articles and results...

http://swling.com/blog/2011/07/fighting-cancer-with-radio-waves/

 

[berkeman]

Ah, their foundation website has a list of journal articles:

http://www.kanziuscancerresearch.org/research/published-journal-articles

Some look to be in pretty reputable publications. Still poking through the abstracts to find some medical results of the research...