Assessing how electroporation affects the effective conductivity tensor of biological tissues
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We report calculations of the anisotropy ratio of the electrical conductivity of a simple model of a loose connective biological tissue described as a random assembly of multiscale undeformable core-shell and controlled polydisperse spherical structures. One can estimate a 10% increase in the anisotropy ratio due to the application of electric field (duration 100 lm) above the electroporation threshold (40 kV m ) up to 120 kV m . These findings are consistent with the experimental data on the field-induced anisotropy dependence of the electrical conductivity due to cell membrane electroporation. VC 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4767450]
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