The Transmission Line loudspeaker is an audio loudspeaker enclosure topology devoted to extending the low frequency range near the loudspeaker frequency resonance. A few models based on physical properties of damped pipes ...
González Suárez, Ana; Berjano, Enrique(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016-02)
Our aim was to compare the different methods of
modeling the effect of circulating blood flow on the thermal lesion
dimensions created by radio frequency (RF) cardiac ablation and
on the maximum blood temperature. ...
González Suárez, Ana(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-03-14)
Las técnicas ablativas basadas en energía por radiofrecuencia (RF) se
emplean con el fin de lograr un calentamiento seguro y localizado en el tejido
biológico. En los últimos años ha habido un rápido crecimiento en el ...
Arenas Puig, Francisco Javier; Pérez Martínez, Juan José; Trujillo Guillen, Macarena; Berjano Zanón, Enrique(BioMed Central, 2014-12-12)
Background
Externally irrigated radiofrequency (RF) electrodes have been widely used to thermally ablate tumors in surface tissue and to thermally coagulate the transection plane during a surgical resection. As far as ...
Ewertowska, Elzbieta(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-01-07)
[ES] La ablación por radiofrecuencia (RF) se ha convertido en una técnica ablativa importante, ampliamente utilizada en el área de las terapias mínimamente invasivas de la medicina moderna. El avance en el campo de las ...
González-Suárez, Ana; Pérez, Juan J; Irastorza, Ramiro M.; D Avila, Andre; Berjano, Enrique(Elsevier, 2022-02)
[EN] This review begins with a rationale of the importance of theoretical, mathematical and computational models for radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation (RFCA). We then describe the historical context in which each model ...
Purpose: The aim was to study by computer simulations the insulating role of the reactive
zone surrounding a cortical osteoid osteoma (OO) in terms of electrical and thermal
performance during radiofrequency ablation ...
González Suárez, Ana; Trujillo Guillen, Macarena; Burdío, Fernando; Andaluz, Anna; Berjano, Enrique(American Association of Physicists in Medicine: Medical Physics, 2014-08)
Purpose: To assess by means of computer simulations whether the heat sink effect inside a large vessel (portal vein) could protect the vessel wall from thermal damage close to an internally cooled electrode during ...
[EN] Background: Preclinical studies on radiofrequency (RF) cardiac ablation (RFCA) use very
small temperature sensors in specific positions in the tissue subjected to RF heating. Despite the
sensors' small size, the ...
[EN] Purpose Stellate ganglion (SG) block by thermal radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is frequently conducted as a therapeutic intervention for sympathetic-maintained and neuropathic pain syndromes. RFA's partial lack of ...
Pérez, Juan J; D Avila, Andre; Aryana, Arash; Berjano, Enrique(Blackwell Publishing, 2015)
[EN] Electrical and Thermal Effects of Esophageal Temperature Probes
IntroductionLuminal esophageal temperature (LET) monitoring is commonly employed during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) to detect high ...
[EN] Background and objective: In the last few years, we have been exploring the use of transparent nanocrystalline yttria-stabilized zirconia (nc-YSZ) ceramics as a biomedical transparent cranial implant, referred as the ...
[EN] Purpose While radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) creates a lesion consisting of the tissue points subjected to lethal heating, the sublethal heating (SH) undergone by the surrounding tissue can cause transient ...
Pérez, Juan J.; González-Suárez, Ana(Public Library of Science, 2023-11-02)
[EN] Even though the preliminary experimental data suggests that cardiac Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) could be superior to radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in terms of being able to ablate the viable myocardium separated from ...
[EN] Purpose: To use computational modeling to provide a complete and logical description of the electrical
and thermal behavior during stereoelectroencephalography-guided (SEEG) radiofrequency thermocoagulation (RF-TC).
Methods: ...
González-Suárez, Ana; Pérez, Juan J; O Brien, Barry; Elahi, Adnan(MDPI AG, 2022-12)
[EN] Background: Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) ablation has been recently proposed to ablate cardiac ganglionic plexi (GP) aimed to treat atrial fibrillation. The effect of metal intracoronary stents in the vicinity of the ...
Accurate diagnosis of predisposition to long QT syndrome is crucial for reducing the risk of cardiac arrhythmias. In recent years, drug-induced provocative tests have proved useful to unmask some latent mutations linked ...
Pérez, Juan J; Berjano, Enrique; González-Suárez, Ana(MDPI AG, 2022-07-16)
[EN] Beating heart (BH) and thigh muscle (TM) are two pre-clinical models aimed at studying the lesion sizes created by radiofrequency (RF) catheters in cardiac ablation. Previous experimental results have shown that thermal ...
[EN] Heart failure constitutes a major public health problem worldwide. Affected patients
experience a number of changes in the electrical function of the heart that predispose to potentially
lethal cardiac arrhythmias. ...
Irastorza, Ramiro M.; Maher, Timothy; Barkagan, Michael; Liubasuskas, Rokas; Pérez, Juan J; Berjano, Enrique; D Avila, Andre(MDPI AG, 2022-10-03)
[EN] Background: Baseline impedance, radiofrequency current, and impedance drop during radiofrequency catheter ablation are thought to predict effective lesion formation. However, quantifying the contributions of local ...