Applications of soft-switching full-bridge converter and rotational electric field to transdermal drug delivery

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 919-925

  Wu, T F ^a   Tseng, S Y ^a   Su, D S ^a   Chen, Y M ^a   Chen, Y K ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DOSAGE; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

POTENTIAL PATHWAYS; PULSED VOLTAGE (PV); SOFT-SWITCHING; TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY (TDD);

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 2342447148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2004.1295932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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