Theoretical considerations of tissue electroporation with high-frequency bipolar pulses

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1474-1482

  Arena, Christopher B ^a   Sano, Michael B ^a   Rylander, Marissa Nichole ^b   Davalos, Rafael V ^a  

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

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar pulses; electroporation; nanosecond pulsed electric field; oscillating electric field; transmembrane potential

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR PULSE; ELECTROPORATION; NANOSECOND PULSED ELECTRIC FIELDS; OSCILLATING ELECTRIC FIELD; TRANSMEMBRANE POTENTIALS;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; CELL MEMBRANES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TISSUE;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTROPORATION; EPITHELIUM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HIGH FREQUENCY BIPOLAR PULSE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; SKINFOLD; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE ELECTROPORATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ELECTROPORATION; EPIDERMIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79955546078     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2102021     Document Type: Article

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