Focal ablation and other cell membrane disruption therapies and molecule delivery mechanisms are used in many clinical and research applications. As such, monitoring techniques for lesion/treatment area are desirable. As such, there exists a need for improved monitoring techniques for use, inter alia, focal ablation and other cell membrane disruption therapies.
Provided herein are embodiments of an electrical conductivity sensor having an impedance sensor, where the impedance sensor can be configured to measure a low-frequency and a high-frequency impedance and a substrate, where the impedance sensor is coupled to the substrate. The substrate can be flexible. In embodiments, the impedance sensor can contain two or more electrical conductors. The electrical conductors can be in a bipolar configuration. The electrical conductors can be in a tetrapolar configuration. In embodiments, the electrical conductivity sensor can have two impedance sensors that can be coupled to the substrate such that they are orthogonal to each other.
In embodiments, the electrical conductivity sensor can have more than one impedance sensor. In some embodiments, the impedance sensors can be configured in an array. In embodiments having more than one impedance sensor, the electrical conductivity sensor can further contain a common ground, where each impedance sensor is coupled to the common ground. In embodiments having more than one impedance sensor, the electrical conductivity sensor can further contain a common counter electrode, wherein the common counter electrode can be coupled to the substrate.
In embodiments, the impedance sensor(s) can have interdigitated electrodes. In embodiments, the impedance sensor(s) can further contain a receptor molecule configured to specifically bind a target molecule, wherein the receptor molecule is coupled to the sensor(s).
In embodiments, the electrical conductivity sensor can contain one or more sensors configured to detect a tissue characteristic selected from the group of: pH, temperature, a chemical concentration, a nucleic acid concentration, a gas amount, or combinations thereof.
Also provided herein are embodiments of an electrical conductivity probe having an elongated member and an electrical conductivity sensor as described herein where the electrical conductivity sensor can be coupled to the elongated member. In embodiments, the electrical conductivity sensor can be removably coupled to the elongated member.
Also provided herein are embodiments of a system having an electrical conductivity probe as described herein, a treatment probe configured to deliver an energy to a tissue, where the energy can be sufficient to disrupt a cell membrane, an impedance analyzer, where the impedance analyzer can be coupled to the electrical conductivity probe, a low voltage power supply, where the low voltage power supply can be coupled to the electrical conductivity probe and can be configured to deliver a low voltage energy to the electrical conductivity probe, a waveform generator, where the waveform generator can be coupled to the low voltage power supply, a gate driver, where the gate driver can be coupled to the waveform generator and the low voltage power supply, a high voltage switch, where the high voltage switch can be coupled to the treatment probe and the impedance analyzer; and a high voltage power supply, where the high voltage power supply can be coupled to the high voltage switch.
In embodiments, the system can further contain a computer. The computer can be coupled to the impedance analyzer and the computer can contain processing logic that can be configured to determine the position of lesion or treated area front within a tissue undergoing focal ablation/cell membrane disruption therapy. The processing logic can be further configured to generate a signal to a user when the position of lesion or treated area front has reached a predetermined position within the tissue. The processing logic can be configured to automatically manipulate the system to adjust or stop treatment of a tissue by the treatment probe when the position of lesion or treated area front has reached a predetermined position within the tissue.
In embodiments, the treatment probe and the electrical conductivity probe can be the same probe. In embodiments, the treatment probe and the electrical conductivity probe are separate probes. The treatment probe can be coupled to a grounding pad located elsewhere relative to the treatment probe in or on the body of a subject being treated.
Also provided herein are embodiments of a method of monitoring the lesion or treated area front or size during focal ablation or cell membrane disruption therapy, the method have the steps of inserting an electrical conductivity probe as described herein into a tissue, inserting a treatment probe into the tissue, applying a treatment to the tissue, wherein the treatment comprises applying an energy to the tissue via the treatment probe, and measuring a characteristic of the tissue continuously during treatment, determining if there is a change in the tissue characteristic. The characteristic can be impedance. In some embodiments, the step of measuring can include measuring both low-frequency impedance and high-frequency impedance and further comprising the step of stopping or adjusting treatment when low-frequency impedance is equal to high-frequency impedance. In embodiments, the characteristic can be pH, temperature, a gas concentration, a chemical concentration, a nucleic acid concentration, or a combination thereof. In some embodiments, the method can contain the step of stopping or adjusting a treatment when a change in the tissue characteristic is detected. In embodiments, the method can contain the step of alerting a user when a change in the tissue characteristic is detected.
In some embodiments, where the electrical conductivity probe includes an impedance sensor array, the method can include the step of determining the location of the lesion or treated area front or size by comparing impedance data between two or more impedance sensors of the impedance sensor array. In embodiments, the method can include the step of comparing the lesion or treated area front or size to a threshold value and stopping treatment when lesion or treated area front or size is greater than or equal to the threshold value. In embodiments, the method can include the step of comparing the lesion or treated area front or size to a threshold value and alerting a user when lesion or treated area front or size is greater than or equal to the threshold value.
The method can include the steps of comparing measured changes in impedance to a solution for the electric field distribution during focal ablation or cell membrane disruption and determining the 2D/3D lesion or treated area geometry of the lesion or treated area volume. In embodiments, the method can include the step of overlaying the 2D/3D lesion or treated area geometry on one or more medical images of a subject to generate an image overlay. The method can include the step of visualizing lesion or treatment area front migration or lesion or treatment area growth from the image overlay.
Further aspects of the present disclosure will be readily appreciated upon review of the detailed description of its various embodiments, described below, when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
Before the present disclosure is described in greater detail, it is to be understood that this disclosure is not limited to particular embodiments described, and as such may, of course, vary. It is also to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only, and is not intended to be limiting.
Where a range of values is provided, it is understood that each intervening value, to the tenth of the unit of the lower limit unless the context clearly dictates otherwise, between the upper and lower limit of that range and any other stated or intervening value in that stated range, is encompassed within the disclosure. The upper and lower limits of these smaller ranges may independently be included in the smaller ranges and are also encompassed within the disclosure, subject to any specifically excluded limit in the stated range. Where the stated range includes one or both of the limits, ranges excluding either or both of those included limits are also included in the disclosure.
Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this disclosure belongs. Although any methods and materials similar or equivalent to those described herein can also be used in the practice or testing of the present disclosure, the preferred methods and materials are now described.
All publications and patents cited in this specification are herein incorporated by reference as if each individual publication or patent were specifically and individually indicated to be incorporated by reference and are incorporated herein by reference to disclose and describe the methods and/or materials in connection with which the publications are cited. The citation of any publication is for its disclosure prior to the filing date and should not be construed as an admission that the present disclosure is not entitled to antedate such publication by virtue of prior disclosure. Further, the dates of publication provided could be different from the actual publication dates that may need to be independently confirmed.
As will be apparent to those of skill in the art upon reading this disclosure, each of the individual embodiments described and illustrated herein has discrete components and features which may be readily separated from or combined with the features of any of the other several embodiments without departing from the scope or spirit of the present disclosure. Any recited method can be carried out in the order of events recited or in any other order that is logically possible.
Embodiments of the present disclosure will employ, unless otherwise indicated, techniques of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, physiology, medical science, veterinary science, bioengineering, biomechanical engineering, physics, and the like, which are within the skill of the art. Such techniques are explained fully in the literature.
As used herein, “about,” “approximately,” and the like, when used in connection with a numerical variable, generally refers to the value of the variable and to all values of the variable that are within the experimental error (e.g., within the 95% confidence interval for the mean) or within plus or minus 10% of the indicated value, whichever is greater.
As used herein, “control” is an alternative subject or sample used in an experiment for comparison purposes and included to minimize or distinguish the effect of variables other than an independent variable. A “control” can be a positive control, a negative control, or an assay or reaction control (an internal control to an assay or reaction included to confirm that the assay was functional). In some instances, the positive or negative control can also be the assay or reaction control.
As used interchangeably herein, “subject,” “individual,” or “patient,” refers to a vertebrate, preferably a mammal, more preferably a human. Mammals include, but are not limited to, murines, simians, humans, farm animals, sport animals, and pets. The term “pet” includes a dog, cat, guinea pig, mouse, rat, rabbit, ferret, and the like. The term farm animal includes a horse, sheep, goat, chicken, pig, cow, donkey, llama, alpaca, turkey, and the like.
As used herein, “biocompatible” or “biocompatibility” refers to the ability of a material to be used by a patient without eliciting an adverse or otherwise inappropriate host response in the patient to the material or an active derivative thereof, such as a metabolite, as compared to the host response in a normal or control patient.
As used herein, “therapeutic” can refer to curing and/or treating a symptom of a disease or condition.
The term “treating”, as used herein, can include inhibiting and/or resolving the disease, disorder or condition, e.g., impeding its progress; and relieving the disease, disorder, or condition, e.g., causing regression of the disease, disorder and/or condition. Treating the disease, disorder, or condition can include ameliorating at least one symptom of the particular disease, disorder, or condition, even if the underlying pathophysiology is not affected, such as treating the pain of a subject by administration of an analgesic agent even though such agent does not treat the cause of the pain.
The term “preventing”, as used herein includes preventing a disease, disorder or condition from occurring in a subject, which can be predisposed to the disease, disorder and/or condition but has not yet been diagnosed as having it. As used herein, “preventative” can refer to hindering or stopping a disease or condition before it occurs or while the disease or condition is still in the sub-clinical phase.
The term “target molecule” can refer to any specific desired molecule including, but not limited to, a nucleic acid, oligonucleotide, polynucleotide, peptide, polypeptide, chemical compound, or other molecule that can specifically bind to a receptor molecule. Typically, the target molecule refers to a molecule that can be located in a sample or tissue whose presence and/or amount can be determined by detecting its binding to known receptor molecule.
The term “receptor molecule” can refer to a molecule that can specifically bind to a target molecule. A receptor molecule can be a nucleic acid, oligonucleotide, polynucleotide, peptide, polypeptide, chemical compound, or other molecule. Receptor molecules can be, for example, antibodies or fragments thereof or aptamers. The receptor molecule can be bound, fixed, or otherwise attached to a surface, sometimes in known location (e.g. as in an array), and can be exposed to a sample such that if a target molecule is present, the target molecule can interact and specifically bind with the receptor molecule. The specific binding can, in some cases, trigger a signal that can provide quantitative and/or qualitative information regarding the target molecule.
As used herein, “specific binding,” “specifically bound,” and the like, refer to binding that occurs between such paired species as nucleotide/nucleotide, enzyme/substrate, receptor/agonist, antibody/antigen, and lectin/carbohydrate that can be mediated by covalent or non-covalent interactions or a combination of covalent and non-covalent interactions. When the interaction of the two species produces a non-covalently bound complex, the binding which occurs is typically electrostatic, hydrogen-bonding, or the result of lipophilic interactions. Accordingly, “specific binding” occurs between a paired species where there is interaction between the two which produces a bound complex having the characteristics of an antibody/antigen or enzyme/substrate interaction. In particular, the specific binding is characterized by the binding of one member of a pair to a particular species and to no other species within the family of compounds to which the corresponding member of the binding member belongs. Thus, for example, an antibody preferably binds to a single epitope and to no other epitope within the family of proteins.
As used herein, “aptamer” refers to single-stranded DNA or RNA molecules that can bind to pre-selected targets including proteins with high affinity and specificity. Their specificity and characteristics are not directly determined by their primary sequence, but instead by their tertiary structure.
Discussion
Focal cell ablation and focal cell membrane disruption techniques can be used to selectively destroy undesired tissue, deliver drugs to cells and tissues, and deliver nucleic acids to cells. Focal ablation and membrane disruption techniques can be thermally or non-thermally based. Thermally based techniques use heat to ablate cells or disrupt cell membranes and include, but are not limited to, radiofrequency (RF) ablation, laser ablation, cryo-ablation, and ultrasound. Other thermal focal ablation/membrane disruption techniques will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art. Non-thermal techniques can rely on the generation or application of an electric field to cells to disrupt (reversibly or irreversibly) the cell membrane, which increases the permeability or kills the cells. Non-thermal focal ablation/membrane disruption techniques include, but are not limited to electroporation. Other Non-thermal focal ablation/membrane disruption techniques will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art. During these techniques, it is difficult to determine the extent of treatment within a tissue being treated. As such, current procedures relying on focal ablation and membrane disruption techniques are imprecise, which can result in undesirable side effects, destruction of, or gene/transcript/protein modification in normal or otherwise healthy cells.
Membrane permeability changes induced by focal ablation/cell membrane disruption techniques at the cell level can translate into changes in impedance at the tissue level. Known devices and methods of monitoring tissue impedance, such as during electroporation, have several drawbacks. Primarily, they rely on bulk tissue properties as opposed to measurements at well-defined points within the tissue being treated. Bulk changes can be useful in describing how the dielectric properties of the tissue change as a whole during treatment. However, there is no specificity in terms of the location where treatment is occurring. In known devices and methods, this information is usually inferred from correlations with predications of the electric field distribution in the tissue. In other words, the treatment zone is defined as the area above a pre-determined threshold that is based on the inferred correlations and predications. The bulk measurements can be made either through the treatment electrodes or with a separate set of electrodes, where the electrodes located in proximity to each other.
As an alternative, electrical impedance tomography (EIT) can be used to map the tissue dielectric potential throughout the entire treatment region based on solutions to a nonlinear inverse that accounts for surface electrical measurements. However, this imaging technique is complicated by the required placement of an electrode array around the periphery of the target tissue. Placement of the electrode array can be difficult to implement clinically because some tumors and other target tissues do not accommodate the placement of such an array due to geometrical/anatomical constraints or the presence of highly insulating anatomical structures such as the skull or skin. Further, EIT suffers from the limitations associated with the resolution of reconstructed images, which relies heavily on the accurate placement and number of external electrodes. Moreover, none of the existing technologies and methods can achieve active, real-time monitoring of the lesion or treated area front during focal ablation and cell membrane disruption procedures.
With these shortcomings in mind, described herein are devices and systems that can be configured to monitor a lesion or treated area front in real-time during focal ablation/membrane disruption therapy. The devices and systems can be configured with a sensor array to detect a lesion or treated area front. The devices and systems provided herein can be used to actively monitor focal ablation/cell membrane disruption therapy in real-time and thus can allow a practitioner to control, adjust, and/or discontinue treatment in response to front migration to minimize treatment side effects.
Also described herein are methods of monitoring a lesion or treated area front in real-time in tissue during focal ablation/membrane disruption. The methods can include alerting a user when the front has reached a desired location. The methods can utilize both low- and high-frequency electrical impedance measurements to determine if the tissue area surrounding a sensor has been ablated or treated. The devices, systems and methods described herein can provide for focal ablation/membrane disruption techniques and therapies with improved specificity than current techniques and devices. Other devices, systems, methods, features, and advantages of the present disclosure will be or become apparent to one having ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the following drawings, detailed description, and examples. It is intended that all such additional compositions, compounds, methods, features, and advantages be included within this description, and be within the scope of the present disclosure.
Systems and Devices for Real-Time Impedance Monitoring
During focal ablation or cell membrane disruption procedures, as the procedure continues the treated area or lesion expands out from the treatment source. A feature common to these types of therapies is a change in the membrane permeability of the cell membranes that have been stimulated during focal ablation or cell membrane disruption. Focal ablation and other membrane disruption techniques can result in a change in impedance in due to a change in the permeability of the cells that have been sufficiently stimulated during focal ablation or cell membrane disruption.
As the lesion or treated area forms as treatment continues, an increasing number of cells in the tissue surrounding the treatment source undergo a membrane disruption and thus a change in the impedance of the cells in that area. As the lesion/treated area grows, a front can be formed that forms a boundary between treated and untreated cells. The treated cells and the untreated cells can have different impedances or other characteristics (e.g. pH and temperature). By measuring the impedance or other characteristic between two or more points in the tissue during treatment, it can be possible to determine if the front lies between those two points. The position of the lesion/treated area front within a tissue being treated can also be made by measuring impedance or other tissue characteristic at a single point and comparing that to a base line or prior measurement from that point.
Provided herein are systems and devices that can be configured to detect and determine the location of a lesion/treated area front in real-time during a focal ablation or cell membrane disruption therapy. The systems and devices can also be configured to generate 3D images and models from lesion/treated area front measurements that can provide the volume of a lesion/treated area. The systems and devices can be configured to provide automatic control of a treatment in response to detection of the migration of the lesion/treated area front. The systems and devices can be configured to provide a signal to a user in response to detection of the migration of the lesion/treated area front.
Biological tissue is a combination of extracellular space, cellular membranes, and subcellular structures, each of which contains organic molecules and ions in different structural arrangements. This can result in a broad spectrum of dielectric properties across multiple frequencies. In other words, the dielectric properties of tissue are frequency dependent. From around 0.1 Hz to 10 MHz, there exist two main dispersive regions: (1) the α, or low frequency, dispersion region and (2) the β, or high frequency, region. The α region ranges from about 0.1 Hz to about 10 Hz and the β region ranges from about 0.1 MHz to about 10 MHz. The α region is due to counter ion polarization effects along cell membranes. The β region is due to the Maxwell-Wagner effects. This describes the charging and relaxation effects along cell membranes, which act as barriers to the movement of ions.
Above the β dispersion, cell membranes have negligible impedance and current can pass freely through the cell membrane. This is similar to what happens during, for example, electroporation, when pore formation reduces the membrane impedance and permits current to enter the cell. As a result, low frequency (α region) electrical measurements at a location in a tissue before and after focal ablation or cell membrane disruption can be compared to determine if the focal ablation or cell membrane disruption has reached its endpoint at that position in the tissue. At the endpoint, the low frequency (α region) impedance is about equal to the high-frequency (β region) impedance, which is due to the focal ablation or cell membrane disruption in that region of the tissue. Stated differently, in a formed lesion or treated area, the low frequency (α region) impedance is about equal to the high-frequency (βregion) impedance. Thus, comparison of the low frequency (α region) impedance and the high-frequency (β region) impedance can be used to determine lesion formation in that area of tissue due to focal ablation/cell membrane disruption treatment.
In some embodiments, the systems and devices can be configured to detect a focal ablation or cell membrane disruption in treatment area by simultaneously measuring both α region and β region impedance in a tissue. The systems and devices described herein can be configured to monitor, in real-time, the size of a treated area during a focal ablation or cell membrane disruption procedure. The devices and systems can contain an electrical conductivity sensor, which can contain an impedance sensor or impedance sensor array. The electrical conductivity sensor can be configured to measure both low-frequency (α region) impedance and high-frequency (β region) impedance. The electrical conductivity sensor can be integrated with or operatively coupled to an electrical conductivity probe and/or be integrated with or operatively coupled to a treatment probe. In embodiments, the frequency is between 0.0001 Hz and 100 GHz, preferably between 1 kHz and 1 MHz.
Electrical Conductivity Sensors
With a general description in mind, attention is directed to
Discussion begins with
The electrical conductors 120 can be coupled to bonding pads 140a,b (collectively 140). In some embodiments, each electrical conductor 120 is coupled to an individual bonding pad 140. The electrical conductors 120 can be coupled to the bonding pad(s) 140 via electrical leads 150a,b (collectively 150). The electrical conductor 120, the bonding pad(s) 140, and the lead(s) 150 can be coupled to a substrate 160. In some embodiments, the electrical conductors 120 can be coupled to an impedance sensor substrate 130. The impedance sensor substrate 130 can be coupled to the substrate 160. In some embodiments, the electrical conductors 120 can be attached directly to the substrate 160. The electrical conductivity sensor 100 can be configured such that at least a portion of one or more of the electrodes is exposed to the tissue when in use.
The electrical conductivity sensor 100 can have a length (l), a width (w), and a thickness. The length can range from about 1 mm to 1000 mm or more. The width can range from about 0.1 mm to about 50 mm or more. The thickness can range from about 0.1 micron to about 1000 microns or more.
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The leads 150, bonding pads 140 and electrical conductors 120 can be made of a suitable conductive or semi-conductive material. The material can be flexible. The materials can be biocompatible. Suitable conductive and semi-conductive materials include, without limitation, gold, silver, copper, aluminum, nickel, platinum, palladium, zinc, molybdenum, tungsten, graphite, Indium tin oxide, conductive organic polymers (e.g. polyacetylene, polyphenylene vinylene, polypyrrole, polythiophene, polyaniline, and polyphenylene sulfide), silicon, germanium, cadmium, indium, and combinations thereof.
In operation, a known electrical current can be passed through at least one of the electrical conductors 120. A voltage is then induced in at least one of the other electrical conductors 120 As such, in embodiments, where there are only two electrical conductors 120 (a bipolar configuration) (see e.g.
Some tissues have anisotropic electrical properties, which can be due to the directional growth of the cell. As such, in some instances it is desirable to measure the electrical conductivities in two orthogonal directions. With this in mind, attention is directed to
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While
With this in mind, attention is directed to
Discussion continues with
Measurement of low-frequency and/or high-frequency impedance of each impedance sensor 110 of the impedance sensor array 200 can be as previously described with respect to
In some embodiments, the sensors 110 can be functionalized with one or more receptor molecules configured to specifically bind a target molecule. This can make the impedance measurement more selective toward identification of certain intracellular substances, including proteins and ions that are released during electroporation. This modification can enhance the capability of the sensor to detect the lesion front.
While
In some embodiments, the electrical conductivity sensor 100 as described in relation to any of
The electrical conductivity sensor 100 and/or any component(s) thereof as described in relation to any of
The electrical conductivity sensor 100 and components thereof described herein can be manufactured by any suitable method and in any suitable way. Suitable methods include, but are not limited to, injection molding, 3-D printing, glass/plastic molding processes, optical fiber production process, casting, chemical deposition, electrospinning, machining, die casting, evaporative-pattern casting, resin casting, sand casting, shell molding, vacuum molding, thermoforming, laminating, dip molding, embossing, drawing, stamping, electroforming, laser cutting, welding, soldering, sintering, bonding, composite material winding, direct metal laser sintering, fused deposition molding, photolithography, spinning, metal evaporation, chemical etching and sterolithography. Other techniques will be appreciated by those of skill in the art.
Electrical Conductivity Probes
The electrical conductivity sensors 100 described in relation to
The electrical conductivity probe 400 can have an elongated member 410 having a distal portion 420 and a proximal portion 430. The elongated member 400 can be any three dimensional shape, including but not limited to, an irregular shape, a cylinder, a cannula, a cuboid, and a triangular prism. The elongated member 400 can have a width. The width can range from about 0.1 mm to about 10 mm or more. The elongated member can have a length. The length can range from about 5 mm to about 50 cm or more. The elongated member can have a diameter. The diameter can range from about 10 microns to about 10 mm or more. The distal portion can have a tapered, beveled, pointed, blunt, sharp, rounded, or flat end. Other configurations for the elongated member will be appreciated by those of skill in the ar. At least one electrical conductivity sensor 100a,b,c (collectively 100) coupled to or otherwise integrated with an outer surface of the elongated member. In some embodiments, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 or more electrical conductivity sensors 100 can be coupled to the elongated member 410. In some embodiments the electrical conductivity sensor(s) 100 can be removably coupled to the elongated member 410. The electrical conductivity sensor(s) 100 can be electrically coupled to the elongated member 410. The electrical conductivity sensor(s) 100 can be coupled to the elongated member in any desired configuration, e.g. linearly, radially, and the like, as will be appreciated by those of skill in the art.
The electrical conductivity probe 400 can include sensors configured to detect tissue characteristics (e.g. pH, temperature, chemical, gas sensors) and circuitry as needed. In some embodiments, the electrical conductivity probe 400 can be configured to deliver an energy to result in focal ablation/cell membrane disruption in a tissue. Stated differently, the electrical conductivity probe 400 can also be a treatment probe in some embodiments. In other embodiments, the electrical conductivity probe 400 can be separate from a treatment probe. The electrical conductivity probe 400 and/or components thereof can be disposable, reusable, recyclable, biocompatible, sterile, and/or sterilizable.
In some embodiments, the impedance sensors and impedance sensor arrays can be integrated directly with an elongated member 510 of an electrical conductivity probe 500. In other words, the impedance sensor and impedance sensor arrays and associated circuitry are not coupled to a substrate (e.g. 160,
The impedance sensor(s) 110 can be electrically coupled to the elongated member 410. The electrical conductivity probe 500 can include additional sensors (e.g. pH, temperature, chemical, gas sensors) and additional circuitry as needed. In some embodiments, the electrical conductivity probe 500 can be configured to deliver an energy to result in focal ablation/cell membrane disruption in a tissue. Stated differently, the electrical conductivity probe 500 can also be a treatment probe in some embodiments. In other embodiments, the electrical conductivity probe 500 can be separate from a treatment probe. The electrical conductivity probe 500 and/or components thereof can be disposable, reusable, recyclable, biocompatible, sterile, and/or sterilizable.
The electrical conductivity probes 400,500 described herein can be manufactured by any suitable method and in any suitable way. Suitable methods include, but are not limited to, injection molding, 3-D printing, glass/plastic molding processes, optical fiber production process, casting, chemical deposition, electrospinning, machining, die casting, evaporative-pattern casting, resin casting, sand casting, shell molding, vacuum molding, thermoforming, laminating, dip molding, embossing, drawing, stamping, electroforming, laser cutting, welding, soldering, sintering, bonding, composite material winding, direct metal laser sintering, fused deposition molding, photolithography, spinning, metal evaporation, chemical etching and sterolithography. Other techniques will be appreciated by those of skill in the art.
Real-Time Lesion/Treated Area Monitoring Systems
Also provided herein are lesion and treated area monitoring systems that can include one or more electrical conductivity probes and components thereof described in relation to
The impedance analyzer 620 can include or be coupled to one or more current injection electrodes 640 configured to inject a low voltage (0.1-1000 mV or more) signal into the impedance sensor(s) 110 of the electrical conductivity probe 610. The injection electrode(s) 640 can each be coupled to an impedance sensor 110 via a switch. Not all of the impedance sensors need be coupled to an injection electrode 640. Stated differently, in some embodiments, only some of the impedance sensors are coupled to an injection electrode via a switch. In some embodiments, the injection electrodes 641a,b are separate from the impedance sensor(s) 110 and can be placed on the outside of an impedance sensor array 200. (see e.g.
The impedance analyzer 620 can be coupled to and/or in communication with a computer or other data storage/processing device 660. The impedance analyzer 620 can be wirelessly coupled to the computer 660. The impedance analyzer can be hard wired to the computer 660. The computer 660 can contain processing logic configured to analyze data from the impedance analyzer 620 or other sensor information received from the electrical conductivity probe 610 and determine the size of the lesion or treated area 730 in the tissue 740. The computer 660 can contain processing logic configured to generate or initiate a signal (visual, audible, digital or otherwise) to alert a user that the lesion or treated are has reached a threshold size. The computer 660 can contain processing logic that can be configured to analyze data received from the impedance analyzer 620 and/or electrical conductivity probe 610 can contain processing logic configured to analyze data from the impedance analyzer 620 or other sensor information received from the electrical conductivity probe 610 and generate an electrical tomographic image of the treatment area. In some embodiments, the processing logic can be configured to determine the ratio of low-frequency impedance to high frequency impedance at a given impedance sensor 110 from impedance sensor data received from the impedance analyzer 620 and/or electrical conductivity probe 610. The computer 660 can contain processing logic configured to determine the amount of high voltage that should be applied to the treatment area via a treatment probe 670 in response to the impedance data and/or other sensory information received.
The computer 660 can be coupled to a waveform generator 680. The waveform generator 680 can be coupled to a gate driver 690. The gate driver 690 and/or impedance analyzer 620 can be coupled to a high voltage switch 700. The high voltage switch can be coupled to an energy storage device 710. The energy storage device can be coupled to a high voltage power supply 720, configured to deliver a high voltage that can range from 50 to 10000 V or more. A treatment probe 670 can be coupled to the high voltage switch 700. The high voltage switch 700 can be controlled by and/or responsive to the waveform generator 680 and/or gate driver 690. Insofar as the waveform generator 680 and/or gate driver 690 can be controlled by the computer 660, treatment can be, in some embodiments, autonomously controlled in response to impedance and other sensory data obtained by the electrical conductivity probe 610 during treatment. The operation of the system is discussed in further detail below.
In some embodiments, such as those shown in
Real-Time Lesion Front/Treated Area Monitoring
The devices and systems described herein can be used to monitor the lesion formation/front and/or treated area during focal ablation/cell membrane disruption therapies, which include, but are not limited to radiofrequency (RF) ablation, microwave ablation, laser ablation, cryo-ablation, ultrasound, electroporation (reversible and irreversible), supraporation, and radiation therapy. Thus, these devices and systems have application for tumor and undesired ablation, drug delivery, and gene therapy and nucleic acid and other molecule delivery. In principle, an electrical conductivity probe as described in relation to
Discussion of the operation of the systems and devices begins with
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While systems and devices employing sensor(s) at a single point along the length of the probe can be suitable for some applications, they can only determine the size of a lesion/treated area when it reaches a single point. With that in mind attention is directed to
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It will be appreciated that any number of electrical conductivity probes 900 can be used at the same time. By placing electrical conductivity probes 900 at different locations and depths into the tissue, the data provided can be used by the system to determine a volume of the lesion/treated area and/or generate a three dimensional image of the treated area.
Now having described the embodiments of the present disclosure, in general, the following Examples describe some additional embodiments of the present disclosure. While embodiments of the present disclosure are described in connection with the following examples and the corresponding text and figures, there is no intent to limit embodiments of the present disclosure to this description. On the contrary, the intent is to cover all alternatives, modifications, and equivalents included within the spirit and scope of embodiments of the present disclosure.
A three dimensional finite element model was constructed in Comsol 4.2a (Burlington, MA) to simulate IRE treatment of liver tissue with two needle electrodes (
0=−∇·(σ(|E|)∇Φ) (Equation 1)
Where ϕ is the electric potential, E is the electric field, and a is the electric conductivity. Equation 1 is obtained from Maxwell's equations assuming no external current density (J=σE), no remnant displacement (D=ε0εr,E), and the quasi-static approximation. This approximation implies a negligible coupling between the electric and magnetic fields (∇×E=0), which allows for the expression of electric field only in terms of electric potential:
E=−∇ϕ (Equation 2)
As depicted in Equation 1, the electric conductivity is a function of the electric field magnitude. This equation is used to describe the nonlinear of effects of pore formation in the cell membrane at the tissue scale. Specifically, this can be described by a step function with a certain degree of smoothing, or by other functions that follow similar relationships between the electric conductivity and electric field, such as sigmoid or Gompertz functions. The step function chosen here increased from a baseline conductivity of 0.3 S/m to a plateau of 1.05 S/m across a transition zone of 500 V/cm centered at 500 V/cm. Therefore, regions of tissue subject to an electric field above 750 V/cm were maximally electroporated.
An electric potential boundary condition of 1500 V was applied along the energized surface of one of the electrodes, with the corresponding ground portion of the alternate electrode set to 0 V. The dielectric properties of the exposed portion of the electrodes for performing IRE and the insulative portion for protecting healthy tissue can be found in Garcia, P. A., et al., Intracranial Nonthermal Irreversible Electroporation: In Vivo Analysis. Journal of Membrane Biology, 2010. 236(1): 127-136. All remaining interior boundaries were treated as continuity, and all remaining outer boundary conditions were treated as electrical insulation. The stationary problem consisting of 100,497 mesh elements was solved using an iterative, conjugate gradient solver.
The electrical conductivity in the tissue resulting from IRE is shown in
A real-time visualization tool for monitoring of reversible and irreversible electroporation treatments. Once the threshold for cell death in terms of bulk tissue conductivity has been characterized this information can be used to reconstruct the ablation in 3D. The volume of the ablation geometry can be described in 2D with a Cassini oval plot that has the results from one axis extrapolated into a third dimension.
The Cassini oval is a curve that derives its values based on the distance of any given point, a, from the fixed location of two foci, q1 and q2, located at (x1, y1) and (x2, y2). The equation is similar to that of an ellipse, except that it is based on the product of distances from the foci, rather than the sum. This makes the equation for such an oval:
[(x2−a)2+(y2−a)2]=b4 (Equation 3)
where b4 is a scaling factor to determine the value at any given point. For incorporation of this equation into shapes that represent the electric field distribution, it is assumed that the two foci are located at the center of the pulsing electrodes along the length of the probe (e.g., x-axis) at (±x,0).
Here, the parameter a represents the location of the ablation front along the length of an IRE needle. This is used to solve for b giving a complete equation to describe the ablation volume. After the probe is placed, software can record baseline values for impedance along a micro-sensor array. After treatment begins, impedance measurements can be recorded in real-time. The location of the ablation(lesion) front can be determined according to the characteristic conductivity of the tissue of interested after it has been irreversibly electroporated. Finally, this data can be used to calculate the ablation geometry, which can be projected as a 3D isometric view of SMART probe onto ortho-planes from stacked CT images of patient anatomy (
Lesion growth in the perpendicular direction of the probe is also reflected in the impedance measurement by the probe. For example, it is predicted by FEM model (
These experimental results show that device (electroporation leads and micro-electrode array) used during these experiments is not only capable of monitoring the lesion length along the probe, but also gives relevant information regarding its other dimensions. This information when combined with FEM modeling can give accurate shape and size of the lesion.
This application is a Continuation application of U.S. application Ser. No. 15/536,333, filed Jun. 15, 2017, which '333 Application is a National Stage application under 35 U.S.C. § 371 of International Application No. PCT/US2015/065792, filed Dec. 15, 2015, which international application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 62/091,703 filed on Dec. 15, 2014 having the title “Real-Time Monitoring of Electrophysical Effects During Tissue Focal Ablation”, each of which are herein incorporated by reference in their entireties.
This invention was made with government support under IIP-1346343 awarded by the National Science Foundation. The government has certain rights in the invention.
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