Experimental characterization and numerical modeling of tissue electrical conductivity during pulsed electric fields for irreversible electroporation treatment planning

RE Neal II, PA Garcia, JL Robertson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Irreversible electroporation is a new technique to kill cells in targeted tissue, such as tumors,
through a nonthermal mechanism using electric pulses to irrecoverably disrupt the cell …

Electroporation-based gene therapy: recent evolution in the mechanism description and technology developments

LM Mir - … Protocols: Preclinical and Clinical Gene Medicine, 2014 - Springer
Thirty years after the publication of the first report on gene electrotransfer in cultured cells by
the delivery of delivering electric pulses, this technology is starting to be applied to humans …

Mitigation of impedance changes due to electroporation therapy using bursts of high-frequency bipolar pulses

SP Bhonsle, CB Arena, DC Sweeney… - Biomedical engineering …, 2015 - Springer
Background For electroporation-based therapies, accurate modeling of the electric field
distribution within the target tissue is important for predicting the treatment volume. In …

A three-dimensional in vitro tumor platform for modeling therapeutic irreversible electroporation

CB Arena, CS Szot, PA Garcia, MN Rylander… - Biophysical journal, 2012 - cell.com
Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is emerging as a powerful tool for tumor ablation that
utilizes pulsed electric fields to destabilize the plasma membrane of cancer cells past the …

Determinants of acute irreversible electroporation lesion characteristics after pulsed field ablation: the role of voltage, contact, and adipose interference

A Gasperetti, F Assis, H Tripathi, M Suzuki… - Europace, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Aims Pulsed field ablation (PFA) is a non-thermal ablative approach in which cardiomyocyte
death is obtained through irreversible electroporation (IRE). Data correlating the biophysical …

In vivo irreversible electroporation kidney ablation: experimentally correlated numerical models

RE Neal, PA Garcia, H Kavnoudias… - IEEE Transactions …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Irreversible electroporation (IRE) ablation uses brief electric pulses to kill a volume of tissue
without damaging the structures contraindicated for surgical resection or thermal ablation …

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 …

Characterization of nonlinearity and dispersion in tissue impedance during high-frequency electroporation

S Bhonsle, MF Lorenzo, A Safaai-Jazi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: The use of high-voltage, high-frequency bipolar pulses (HFBPs) is an emerging
electroporation-based therapy for the treatment of solid tumors. In this study, we quantify the …

Magnetic resonance imaging characteristics of nonthermal irreversible electroporation in vegetable tissue

M Hjouj, B Rubinsky - The Journal of membrane biology, 2010 - Springer
We introduce and characterize the use of MRI for studying nonthermal irreversible
electroporation (NTIRE) in a vegetative tissue model. NTIRE is a new minimally invasive …

The feasibility of a smart surgical probe for verification of IRE treatments using electrical impedance spectroscopy

M Bonakdar, EL Latouche, RL Mahajan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Significance: Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is gaining popularity as a focal ablation
modality for the treatment of unresectable tumors. One clinical limitation of IRE is the …