OPTIMIZING CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ELECTRIC FIELD TO INCREASE THE FIELD'S EFFECT ON PROLIFERATING CELLS

摘要

AC electric fields at particular frequencies and field strengths have beenshown to be effective for destroying rapidly proliferating cells such ascancer cells. The effectiveness of such fields is improved when the field issequentially switched between two or more different directions. Theeffectiveness of such fields can be improved even further by choosing the rateat which the field is switched between the various directions.