Towards electroporation based treatment planning considering electric field induced muscle contractions

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 189-201

  Golberg, Alex ^a   Rubinsky, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Current Cage; DNA vaccination; Electrochemotherapy; Electrode configuration; Electroporation; Muscle contraction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA IMMUNIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPORATION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHANTOM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NEOPLASMS; THEORETICAL MODEL; CONDUCTANCE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVE STIMULATION; SKIN ELECTROPORATION; TISSUE CONDUCTANCE; TISSUE PHANTOM; TISSUES; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DNA VACCINE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROPORATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 84869421116     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7785/tcrt.2012.500249     Document Type: Article

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