Pilot study of irreversible electroporation for intracranial surgery

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 6513-6516

  Garcia, Paulo A ^a   Rossmeisl Jr , John H ^b   Robertson, John ^b   Ellis, Thomas L ^c   Davalos, Rafael V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; DISEASES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

BRAIN TISSUE; ELECTRIC PULSE; ELECTROPORATION; FOCAL ABLATIONS; MINIMALLY-INVASIVE TECHNIQUE; PILOT STUDIES; TISSUE ABLATIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

SURGERY;

EID: 77950988071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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