oncotripsy
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Noun
[edit]oncotripsy
- (surgery) The selective targeting of cancer tissue.
- 2015, Stefanie Heyden, Michael Ortiz, “Oncotripsy: Targeting cancer cells selectively via resonant harmonic excitation”, in arXiv[1]:
- 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.