The importance of electric field distribution for effective in vivo electroporation of tissues

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2152-2158

  Miklavčič, Damijan ^a   Beravs, Katarina ^b   Šemrov, Dejan ^a   Čemažar, Maja ^c   Demšar, Franci ^b   Serša, Gregor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0343069846     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77924-X     Document Type: Article

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