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Four experiments have been performed, positioning the probe at different positions from the laser applicator tip (from 0.5 mm to 5 mm). Pressure levels increase during ablation time, and decrease with distance from applicator tip: the recorded peak parenchymal pressure levels range from 1.9 kPa to 71.6 kPa. Different pressure evolutions have been recorded, as pressure rises earlier in proximity of the tip. The present study is the first investigation of parenchymal pressure detection in liver undergoing LA: the successful detection of intra-tissue pressure may be a key asset for improving LA, as pressure levels have been correlated to scattered recurrences of tumors by different studies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s16040544","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,15]],"date-time":"2016-04-15T11:36:02Z","timestamp":1460720162000},"page":"544","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Intra-Tissue Pressure Measurement in Ex Vivo Liver Undergoing Laser Ablation with Fiber-Optic Fabry-Perot Probe"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6500-4964","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniele","family":"Tosi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering, Nazarbayev University, 53 Kabanbay Batyr, Astana 01000, Kazakhstan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4236-8033","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paola","family":"Saccomandi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Image-Guided Surgery (IHU), S\/c Ircad, STRASBOURG Cedex, Strasbourg 67091, France"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9696-1265","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Emiliano","family":"Schena","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Unit of Measurements and Biomedical Instrumentation, Universita\u2019 Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, via Alvaro del Portillo 21, Roma 00128, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2009-9709","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dinesh","family":"Duraibabu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre (OFSRC), University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3234-9349","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sven","family":"Poeggel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre (OFSRC), University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2448-4428","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gabriel","family":"Leen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre (OFSRC), University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4174-7090","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Elfed","family":"Lewis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre (OFSRC), University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"323","DOI":"10.2214\/ajr.174.2.1740323","article-title":"Thermal ablation therapy for focal malignancy: A unified approach to underlying principles, techniques, and diagnostic imaging guidance","volume":"174","author":"Goldberg","year":"2000","journal-title":"Am. 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