WO2009137800A3 - Electroporation device and method - Google Patents
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- A61B18/12—Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body by heating by passing a current through the tissue to be heated, e.g. high-frequency current
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- A61B17/34—Trocars; Puncturing needles
- A61B17/3417—Details of tips or shafts, e.g. grooves, expandable, bendable; Multiple coaxial sliding cannulas, e.g. for dilating
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- A61B17/34—Trocars; Puncturing needles
- A61B17/3417—Details of tips or shafts, e.g. grooves, expandable, bendable; Multiple coaxial sliding cannulas, e.g. for dilating
- A61B2017/3454—Details of tips
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- A61B2018/00571—Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body for achieving a particular surgical effect
- A61B2018/00613—Irreversible electroporation
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods and devices configured for pulsed voltage ablation that have two or more voltage delivery regions separated along a probe by electrically insulating regions. The electrically insulating regions are of sufficient lengths to allow the voltage delivery regions to be oppositely energized for delivering voltage pulses to treat cells within a predetermined ablation volume that can be delineated through representations indicating pulsed voltage ablation thresholds for cells.
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