Electrosurgery with cellular precision

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 838-841

  Palanker, Daniel V ^a   Vankov, Alexander ^b   Huie, Philip ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEAK Surgical Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Electroporation; Electrosurgery; Pulsed ablation; Thermal confinement

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPORATION; PULSED ABLATION; THERMAL CONFINEMENT;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; MICROMETERS; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE;

ELECTROSURGERY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; ELECTROPORATION; ELECTROSURGERY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROELECTRODE; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TISSUE INJURY;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; ELECTROPORATION; ELECTROSURGERY; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; SWINE;

EID: 38349047857     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.914539     Document Type: Article

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