Electrical impedance characterization of normal and cancerous human hepatic tissue

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 995-1009

  Laufer, Shlomi ^a   Ivorra, Antoni ^b,c   Reuter, Victor E ^d   Rubinsky, Boris ^a,b,c   Solomon, Stephen B ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bioimpedance; liver cancer

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; GENE THERAPY; TUMORS;

BIO-IMPEDANCE; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; ELECTROPORATION; EX-VIVO; FOUR-ELECTRODE METHOD; FREQUENCY RANGES; HEPATIC TISSUE; HEPATIC TUMORS; IMPEDANCE CHARACTERIZATION; LIVER CANCERS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77954097642     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/31/7/009     Document Type: Article

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