Intracellular electroporation site distributions: Modeling examples for nsPEF and IRE pulse waveforms

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 732-735

  Gowrishankar, T R ^a   Esser, A T ^a   Smith, K C ^a,b   Son, R S ^a   Weaver, J C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL KILLING; ELECTRIC FIELD PULSE; ELECTRICAL BEHAVIORS; ELECTROPORATION; END POINTS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; IONIC AND MOLECULAR TRANSPORT; KEY FEATURE; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MULTIPLE CELLS; MULTIPLE PULSE; NANOSECOND PULSED ELECTRIC FIELDS; NEGATIVE CONTROL; NONTHERMAL; PULSE WAVEFORMS; SITE DISTRIBUTION; SYSTEMS MODELS;

CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXPERIMENTS; GENES;

MODELS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE;

CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 84861955389     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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