A Hydrophobic Gel Phantom for Study of Thermochemical Ablation: Initial Results Using a Weak Acid and Weak Base

The oil gel phantom is a safe, useful, readily available, inexpensive model to study mixing behaviors and maximum heating potentials for reactions that may prove useful in thermochemical tissue ablation for oncologic interventions. Measurable temperature changes occurred even at the lowest concentrations, and higher concentrations produced a greater release of heat energy.