Electrical Impedance Tomography for Imaging Tissue Electroporation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 761-767

  Davalos, Rafael V ^a   Otten, David M ^a   Mir, Lluis M ^b   Rubinsky, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bioimpedance tomography; Electrochemotherapy; Electrogenetherapy; Electropermeabilization; Medical imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CELL MEMBRANES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOLECULES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

ELECTRIC PULSES; IMAGING TISSUE ELECTROPORATION; MOLECULAR MEDICINE;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SIMULATION; TISSUE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MALE; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 1942424944     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.824148     Document Type: Article

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