Treatment of uveal melanoma by nonthermal irreversible electroporation: Electrical and bioheat finite element model of the human eye

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 134, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Mandel, Yossi ^a   Rubinsky, Boris ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

eye; heat transfer; irreversible electroporation; uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

BIO-HEAT; ELECTROPORATION; EYE; EYE TEMPERATURE; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; HIGH ELECTRIC FIELDS; HIGH-POWER; HUMAN EYE; INTRAOCULAR; MALIGNANT TUMORS; MATHEMATICAL SIMULATION MODEL; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE TREATMENTS; NONTHERMAL; PENNES BIO-HEAT EQUATIONS; SIMULTANEOUS SOLUTION; TARGET FIELDS; THERMAL DAMAGE; TISSUE ABLATIONS; TUMOR VOLUMES; UVEAL MELANOMA; VITREOUS HUMOR;

CELL MEMBRANES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DERMATOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; ONCOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TUMORS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 84867025307     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4005203     Document Type: Article

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