Patient-specific electroporation treatment planning software
This technology is a software-based treatment planning system for a medical procedure called electroporation, which uses precisely controlled electrical pulses to destroy tumors or treat diseased tissue. Before a procedure, the system takes 3D images of the patient's target tissue, builds a digital model of it, and runs numerical simulations to calculate exactly how to position electrodes and what pulse parameters to use for that specific patient. The result is a customized treatment protocol that maximizes effectiveness on the target while minimizing collateral damage to surrounding healthy tissue. It also incorporates bipolar pulse delivery to reduce unwanted charge buildup in tissue.
What you could build
A pre-procedure software platform sold to hospitals and interventional oncology centers that generates patient-specific electroporation treatment plans from MRI or CT scans, comparable in model to radiation therapy planning software like Varian or Elekta products; buyers would be cancer centers and surgical departments performing irreversible electroporation (IRE) procedures.
Who in Virginia should care
Virginia academic medical centers (UVA Health, Inova) and medtech companies in the Northern Virginia/DC corridor with oncology device portfolios would be plausible licensees or commercialization partners.
Readiness: Prototype likely
Concept — described but not yet demonstrated. Lab validated — supported by experimental results in the patent. Prototype likely — the text describes a built, working embodiment.
Readiness is inferred from the patent text, not from a lab visit.
The record
- Inventors
- Robert E. Neal II, Paulo A. Garcia, Rafael V. Davalos, John H. Rossmeisl, John L. Robertson
- Granted
- December 1, 2015
- Status
- Granted patent
- Patent number
- 9198733
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