Patient-specific treatment planning of electrochemotherapy: Procedure design and possible pitfalls

Bioelectrochemistry

Volumn 87, Issue , 2012, Pages 265-273

  Pavliha, Denis ^a   Kos, Bor ^a   Županič, Anže ^a   Marčan, Marija ^a   Serša, Gregor ^b   Miklavčič, Damijan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Electrochemotherapy; Electroporation; Medical imaging; Numerical modeling; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; CLINICAL SETTINGS; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER MODELS; ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRODE GEOMETRIES; ELECTROPORATION; MEDICAL IMAGES; MEDICAL PRACTITIONER; OPTIMAL RESULTS; STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROPORATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPORATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865085798     PISSN: 15675394     EISSN: 1878562X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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