Liver ablation: best practice

SA Wells, JL Hinshaw, MG Lubner… - Radiologic …, 2015 - radiologic.theclinics.com
Tumor ablation is broadly defined as the destruction of focal tumors by direct application of
chemicals or energy. 1 Tumor ablation therapies are delivered via needlelike applicators …

A review of radiofrequency ablation: Large target tissue necrosis and mathematical modelling

B Zhang, MAJ Moser, EM Zhang, Y Luo, C Liu… - Physica Medica, 2016 - Elsevier
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is an effective clinical method for tumour ablation with
minimum intrusiveness. However, the use of RFA is mostly restricted to small tumours …

Thermal ablation of colorectal liver metastases: a position paper by an international panel of ablation experts, The Interventional Oncology Sans Frontières meeting …

A Gillams, N Goldberg, M Ahmed, R Bale, D Breen… - European …, 2015 - Springer
Objectives Previous attempts at meta-analysis and systematic review have not provided
clear recommendations for the clinical application of thermal ablation in metastatic colorectal …

Methods for thermally-induced hepatic neuromodulation

BR Azamian, SB Vafai, JA Coe - US Patent 8,568,399, 2013 - Google Patents
US8568399B2 - Methods for thermally-induced hepatic neuromodulation - Google Patents
US8568399B2 - Methods for thermally-induced hepatic neuromodulation - Google Patents …

Effects of variation in perfusion rates and of perfusion models in computational models of radio frequency tumor ablation

DJ Schutt, D Haemmerich - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Finite element method (FEM) models are commonly used to simulate radio
frequency (RF) tumor ablation. Prior FEM models of RF ablation have either ignored the …

Effect of variation of portal venous blood flow on radiofrequency and microwave ablations in a blood-perfused bovine liver model

GD Dodd III, NA Dodd, AC Lanctot, DA Glueck - Radiology, 2013 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To assess whether there is a significant difference in the effect of incremental
changes of portal venous blood flow rates on the size of radiofrequency (RF) versus …

Improving cancer therapies by targeting the physical and chemical hallmarks of the tumor microenvironment

JW Ivey, M Bonakdar, A Kanitkar, RV Davalos… - Cancer letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Tumors are highly heterogeneous at the patient, tissue, cellular, and molecular levels. This
multi-scale heterogeneity poses significant challenges for effective therapies, which ideally …

Irreversible electroporation ablation: creation of large-volume ablation zones in in vivo porcine liver with four-electrode arrays

L Appelbaum, E Ben-David, M Faroja, Y Nissenbaum… - Radiology, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To prospectively determine optimal parameters with which to achieve defined large
target zones of coagulation by using irreversible electroporation (IRE) with four-electrode …

Highlighting the effect of heterogeneous blood perfusion on radio-frequency ablation of human brain tumors: An image-based numerical investigation

A Bhandari, S Mukharjee, A Kumar, A Singh… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Radio-frequency ablation (RFA) is a minimally invasive treatment that can provide highly
localized and precise cancer therapy. Despite these advantages, its application in clinical …

Influence of blood vessel on the thermal lesion formation during radiofrequency ablation for liver tumors

HW Huang - Medical physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The major obstacles of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) heat treatments are
nonuniform heating in the thermal lesion and heat sinks caused by large blood vessels …