title: Electric field analysis of breast tumor cells.
abstract: An attractive alternative treatment for malignant tumors that are refractive to conventional therapies, such as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, is electrical-pulse-mediated drug delivery. Electric field distribution of tissue/tumor is important for effective treatment of tissues. This paper deals with the electric field distribution study of a tissue model using MAXWELL 3D Simulator. Our results indicate that tumor tissue had lower electric field strength compared to normal cells, which makes them susceptible to electrical-pulse-mediated drug delivery. This difference could be due to the altered properties of tumor cells compared to normal cells, and our results corroborate this.
authors.affiliation: Anna University, Chennai 600 025, India.
authors.forename: V Gowri
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Sree
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Udayakumar
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sundararajan