Castellví Fernández, Quim (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Most physical ablation modalities for cancer treatment are focal and are based on thermal damage. Despite their regular clinical use as an alternative to surgical resection, their thermal principle of ...
Perera Bel, Enric (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
Diverses teràpies mèdiques es basen en l’electroporació. Entre d’altres, l’electroporació s'usa per al tractament de tumors sòlids. Com que només afecta les cèl·lules i la matriu extracel·lular queda ...
Tudela Pi, Marc (Date of defense: 2022-10-27)
Although the use of volumetric conduction to power wireless implants has been experimentally validated in recent years, a theoretical framework to determine the power and efficiency obtained by minimally ...
Eladly, Ahmed Fayed (Date of defense: 2021-04-28)
This thesis was conducted within the framework of the eAXON project that is aimed at developing injectable wireless sub-millimetric single-channel addressable microstimulators based on volume conduction ...
Mercadal Cavaller, Borja (Date of defense: 2019-10-16)
This thesis aimed at addressing questions within the fields of electroporation and peripheral nerve stimulation and, in particular, those that arise from the interaction between the two phenomenona. On ...
Qasrawi, Radwan (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
Two treatment modalities based on the electroporation phenomenon, electro-chemotherapy and irreversible electroporation, have been developed in the last decades to destroy solid tumors. These treatments ...
Becerra Fajardo, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-10-17)
Neuroprostheses based on dense networks of wireless microstimulators have been proposed in the past for restoring movement in paralysis patients. Yet existing implantable microstimulators are too bulky ...
Klein, Nina (Date of defense: 2021-07-19)
Electroporation is a biophysical phenomenon in which cell membrane permeability to ions and molecules is increased when the cell is briefly exposed to high electric fields. Electroporation is the basis ...