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

Overview of attention for article published in BioMedical Engineering OnLine, August 2015
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Title
Mitigation of impedance changes due to electroporation therapy using bursts of high-frequency bipolar pulses
Published in
BioMedical Engineering OnLine, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/1475-925x-14-s3-s3
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Suyashree P Bhonsle, Christopher B Arena, Daniel C Sweeney, Rafael V Davalos

Abstract

For electroporation-based therapies, accurate modeling of the electric field distribution within the target tissue is important for predicting the treatment volume. In response to conventional, unipolar pulses, the electrical impedance of a tissue varies as a function of the local electric field, leading to a redistribution of the field. These dynamic impedance changes, which depend on the tissue type and the applied electric field, need to be quantified a priori, making mathematical modeling complicated. Here, it is shown that the impedance changes during high-frequency, bipolar electroporation therapy are reduced, and the electric field distribution can be approximated using the analytical solution to Laplace's equation that is valid for a homogeneous medium of constant conductivity. Two methods were used to examine the agreement between the analytical solution to Laplace's equation and the electric fields generated by 100 µs unipolar pulses and bursts of 1 µs bipolar pulses. First, pulses were applied to potato tuber tissue while an infrared camera was used to monitor the temperature distribution in real-time as a corollary to the electric field distribution. The analytical solution was overlaid on the thermal images for a qualitative assessment of the electric fields. Second, potato ablations were performed and the lesion size was measured along the x- and y-axes. These values were compared to the analytical solution to quantify its ability to predict treatment outcomes. To analyze the dynamic impedance changes due to electroporation at different frequencies, electrical impedance measurements (1 Hz to 1 MHz) were made before and after the treatment of potato tissue. For high-frequency bipolar burst treatment, the thermal images closely mirrored the constant electric field contours. The potato tissue lesions differed from the analytical solution by 39.7 ± 1.3 % (x-axis) and 6.87 ± 6.26 % (y-axis) for conventional unipolar pulses, and 15.46 ± 1.37 % (x-axis) and 3.63 ± 5.9 % (y-axis) for high- frequency bipolar pulses. The electric field distributions due to high-frequency, bipolar electroporation pulses can be closely approximated with the homogeneous analytical solution. This paves way for modeling fields without prior characterization of non-linear tissue properties, and thereby simplifying electroporation procedures.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Taiwan 1 2%
Unknown 41 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 21%
Student > Master 6 14%
Student > Bachelor 5 12%
Researcher 5 12%
Lecturer 2 5%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 10 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 10%
Engineering 3 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 5%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 13 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 September 2019.
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#8,534,528
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from BioMedical Engineering OnLine
#238
of 867 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#95,590
of 278,966 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BioMedical Engineering OnLine
#4
of 17 outputs
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