The course of tissue permeabilization studied on a mathematical model of a subcutaneous tumor in small animals

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1373-1381

  Pavšelj, Nataša ^a   Bregar, Zvonko ^a,b   Cukjati, David ^a   Batiuskaite, Danute ^c,d   Mir, Lluis M ^b,c,e   Miklavčič, Damijan ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Milan Vidmar Electroinstitute   (Slovenia)

^c INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^d VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^e ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^f Laboratory of Biocybernetics   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Electropermeabilization; Electroporation; Finite element modeling; Subcutaneous tumor model; Tissue conductivity change

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; DRUG THERAPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; TUMORS;

ELECTROPERMEABILIZATION; ELECTROPORATION; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; SUBCUTANEOUS TUMOR MODELS; TISSUE CONDUCTIVITY CHANGE;

TISSUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABSORPTION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROPORATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE TUMOR;

EID: 23844458446     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.851524     Document Type: Article

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