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AssigneeNano Hesgarsazan Salamat Arya
InventorsMohammad Abdolahad, Zohreh Sadat Miripour, Mohammad Ali Khayamian, Parisa Aghaee, Hadi Ghafari, Naser Namdar Habashi, Fereshteh Abbasvandi, Reyhaneh Mahdavi, Narges Yousefpour, Hossein Ataee, Sajad Mehrvarz
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A system for destroying a cancerous tumor. The system includes an electrical probe, an impedance analyzer device configured to be connected to the electrical probe, a DC voltage generator configured to be connected to the electrical probe, and a processing unit connected to the impedance analyzer device and the DC voltage generator. The electrical probe includes a first electrode including a first electrically conductive needle, a second electrode including a second electrically conductive needle with a nanoporous surface placed inside the first electrode, a first electrically insulating layer placed around the first electrode except a first distal end portion of the first electrode, and a second electrically insulating layer placed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The processing unit configured to perform destroying the cancerous tumor by executing processor-readable instructions utilizing the impedance analyzer device and the DC voltage generator.
1- A system for destroying a cancerous tumor, comprising:
2- The system of claim 1, wherein calculating the IPS comprises:
3- The system of claim 2, wherein stopping destroying of the cancer cells comprises:
4- The system of claim 1, wherein stopping destroying of the cancer cells of the cancerous tumor further comprises:
5- The system of claim 1, wherein the second electrically conductive needle with the nanoporous surface comprises a needle made of platinum-iridium alloy.
6- The system of claim 5, wherein the second electrically conductive needle with the nanoporous surface comprises a needle made of platinum-iridium alloy with a weight ratio of 9:1 for platinum:iridium.
7- The system of claim 5, wherein the nanoporous surface of the second electrically conductive needle comprises an electrically etched outer surface of the second electrically conductive needle, the electrically etched outer surface comprising a plurality of nanopores each with a diameter of less than 100 nanometers.
8- The system of claim 5, wherein the second electrically conductive needle has a thickness between 100 μm and 500 μm.
9- The system of claim 1, wherein the first electrically conductive needle comprises a needle of a peripheral venous catheter with a gauge size of gauge 14 or more.
10- The system of claim 1, wherein the set of pre-determined time steps comprises at least one of a set of equal time steps, a set of unequal time steps, and combinations thereof, each time step of the set of pre-determined time steps comprising a time period in a range between 1 minutes and 3 minutes.
11- An electrical probe, comprising:
12- The electrical probe of claim 11, wherein the second electrically conductive needle with the nanoporous surface comprises a needle made of platinum-iridium alloy.
13- The electrical probe of claim 12, wherein the second electrically conductive needle with the nanoporous surface comprises a needle made of platinum-iridium alloy with a weight ratio of 9:1 for platinum:iridium.
14- The electrical probe of claim 13, wherein the nanoporous surface of the second electrically conductive needle comprises an electrically etched outer surface of the second electrically conductive needle, the electrically etched outer surface comprising a plurality of nanopores with a diameter of less than 100 nanometers.
15- The electrical probe of claim 13, wherein the nanoporous surface of the second electrically conductive needle comprises a plurality of nano-sized hills on the outer surface of the second electrically conductive needle with a width of less than 100 nm and a depth of less than 100 nm for each respective hill of the plurality of nano-sized hills.
16- The electrical probe of claim 11, wherein:
17- The electrical probe of claim 11, further comprising two electrical connectors, comprising:
18- The electrical probe of claim 11, wherein the first electrically insulating layer comprises an opening, the first electrical connector being passed through the opening and attached onto the surface of the first electrode.
19- The electrical probe of claim 11, wherein the second electrically insulating layer comprises a layer of an electrically insulating material coated on outer surface of the second electrode except an outer surface of the second distal end portion.
20- The electrical probe of claim 11, wherein: