Nanosecond-duration electric pulse delivery in vitro and in vivo: Experimental considerations

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1945-1954

  Silve, Aude ^a,b,c   Vézinet, René ^d   Mir, Lluis M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^d DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Biological tissue; characteristic impedance; nanosecond pulses; pulse distortion; rising edges

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE; NANOSECOND PULSE; PULSE DISTORTION; RISING EDGES;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FREQUENCY BANDS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 84862282256     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2182861     Document Type: Article

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