In magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia treatment, the ideal objective is to destroy all tumor cells without any damage to neighboring normal tissues. Thus, the temperature distribution in cancerous tissue and also surrounding healthy tissues should become closer to the desired distribution. In this paper, the temperature distribution is estimated by using a numerical scheme to solve the Penne’s ...

We investigate a method of selectively targeting cancer cells by means of ultrasound harmonic excitation at their resonance frequency, which we refer to as oncotripsy. The geometric model of the cells takes into account the cytoplasm, nucleus and nucleolus, as well as the plasma membrane and nuclear envelope. Material properties are varied within a pathophysiologically-relevant range. A first m...

In this paper, the numerical design and simulate a biosensor to detect tumors and cancerous tissues by using metamaterial structures in the microwave regime are presented. The presented structure consists of a microstrip transmission line and a split ring resonator (SRR) that form a bandpass filter and has a unique resonance frequency. Given that cancerous tissues have larger volumes of water t...

The atomic force microscope is broadly used to study the morphology of cells, but it can also probe the mechanics of cells. It is now known that cancerous cells may have different mechanical properties to those of normal cells, but the reasons for these differences are poorly understood. Here, we report quantitatively the differences between normal and cancerous human cervical epithelial cells ...