Tumor ablation: common modalities and general practices

EM Knavel, CL Brace - Techniques in vascular and interventional radiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Tumor ablation is a minimally invasive technique that is commonly used in the treatment of
tumors of the liver, kidney, bone, and lung. During tumor ablation, thermal energy is used to …

Irreversible electroporation: state of the art

PGK Wagstaff, M Buijs, W van den Bos… - OncoTargets and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The field of focal ablative therapy for the treatment of cancer is characterized by abundance
of thermal ablative techniques that provide a minimally invasive treatment option in selected …

A numerical investigation of the electric and thermal cell kill distributions in electroporation-based therapies in tissue

PA Garcia, RV Davalos, D Miklavcic - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Electroporation-based therapies are powerful biotechnological tools for enhancing the
delivery of exogeneous agents or killing tissue with pulsed electric fields (PEFs) …

Percutaneous ablation of peribiliary tumors with irreversible electroporation

MT Silk, T Wimmer, KS Lee, G Srimathveeravalli… - Journal of vascular and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose To assess biliary complications after irreversible electroporation (IRE) ablation of
hepatic tumors located< 1 cm from major bile ducts. Materials and Methods A retrospective …

Bursts of bipolar microsecond pulses inhibit tumor growth

MB Sano, CB Arena, KR Bittleman, MR DeWitt… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is an emerging focal therapy which is demonstrating utility
in the treatment of unresectable tumors where thermal ablation techniques are …

First human trial of high-frequency irreversible electroporation therapy for prostate cancer

S Dong, H Wang, Y Zhao, Y Sun… - Technology in cancer …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Irreversible electroporation, as a nonthermal therapy of prostate cancer, has been used in
clinic for several years. The mechanism of irreversible electroporation ablation is thermal …

Bipolar microsecond pulses and insulated needle electrodes for reducing muscle contractions during irreversible electroporation

C Yao, S Dong, Y Zhao, Y Lv, H Liu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: To minimize the effect of muscle contractions during irreversible electroporation
(IRE), this paper attempts to research the ablation effect and muscle contractions by …

A comprehensive characterization of parameters affecting high-frequency irreversible electroporation lesions

T Miklovic, EL Latouche, MR DeWitt… - Annals of biomedical …, 2017 - Springer
Several focal therapies are being investigated clinically to treat tumors in which surgery is
contraindicated. Many of these ablation techniques, such as radiofrequency ablation and …

The state of irreversible electroporation in interventional oncology

M Silk, D Tahour, G Srimathveeravalli… - Seminars in …, 2014 - thieme-connect.com
A new ablation modality, irreversible electroporation (IRE), has been of increasing interest in
interventional radiology. Its nonthermal mechanism of action of killing tumor cells allows …

Planning irreversible electroporation in the porcine kidney: are numerical simulations reliable for predicting empiric ablation outcomes?

T Wimmer, G Srimathveeravalli, N Gutta… - Cardiovascular and …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose Numerical simulations are used for treatment planning in clinical applications of
irreversible electroporation (IRE) to determine ablation size and shape. To assess the …