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Rubinsky Boris

University of California Berkeley
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The promise of organ and tissue preservation to transform medicine

…, A Tocchio, GM Fahy, KB Storey, B Rubinsky… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The ability to replace organs and tissues on demand could save or improve millions of lives
each year globally and create public health benefits on par with curing cancer. Unmet needs …

High-voltage electrical pulses in oncology: irreversible electroporation, electrochemotherapy, gene electrotransfer, electrofusion, and electroimmunotherapy

…, RS Puijk, PM van den Tol, RV Davalos, B Rubinsky… - Radiology, 2020 - pubs.rsna.org
This review summarizes the use of high-voltage electrical pulses (HVEPs) in clinical oncology
to treat solid tumors with irreversible electroporation (IRE) and electrochemotherapy (ECT)…

Irreversible electroporation: a new ablation modality—clinical implications

B Rubinsky, G Onik, P Mikus - Technology in cancer …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a new tissue ablation technique in which micro to
millisecond electrical pulses are delivered to undesirable tissue to produce cell necrosis through …

Irreversible electroporation in medicine

B Rubinsky - Technology in cancer research & treatment, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
This is a brief introduction to the emerging field of irreversible electroporation in medicine.
Certain electrical fields when applied across a cell can have as a sole effect the …

In vivo results of a new focal tissue ablation technique: irreversible electroporation

…, RV Davalos, LM Mir, B Rubinsky - IEEE Transactions …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports results of in vivo experiments that confirm the feasibility of a new minimally
invasive method for tissue ablation, irreversible electroporation (IRE). Electroporation is …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor ablation with irreversible electroporation

…, E Connault, P Opolon, RV Davalos, B Rubinsky… - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
We report the first successful use of irreversible electroporation for the minimally invasive
treatment of aggressive cutaneous tumors implanted in mice. Irreversible electroporation is a …

Cancer cells ablation with irreversible electroporation

L Miller, J Leor, B Rubinsky - Technology in cancer research …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study we perform in vitro irreversible electroporation (IRE) experiments with human
hepatocarcinoma cells (HepG2) to investigate IRE as a new technique for undesirable tissue …

Irreversible electroporation: implications for prostate ablation

G Onik, P Mikus, B Rubinsky - Technology in cancer …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Percutaneous prostate cryo-ablation has become an accepted treatment for primary prostate
cancer. Thermal tissue ablation based on cold, however, does have some distinct limitations…

Transrectal ultrasound‐guided percutaneous radical cryosurgical ablation of the prostate

GM Onik, JK Cohen, GD Reyes, B Rubinsky, Z Chang… - Cancer, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Background. The two major treatments for prostate cancer, radical prostatectomy and
radiation therapy, are associated with considerable morbidity and variable results. This article …

Cryosurgery

B Rubinsky - Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2000 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Cryosurgery is a surgical technique that employs freezing to destroy undesirable
tissue. Developed first in the middle of the nineteenth century it has recently incorporated …