Novocure Gmbh

Boaz Marsault

Noa Halavee

Elie Yaacobi

Nitzan Shany

Yoram Wasserman

Dmitry Golom

Stas Obuchovsky

Golan Bar-Tal

Nataliya Kuplennik

David Shapiro

Tal Marciano

Smadar Arvatz

Golan Bar-tal

Medical treatment device

A method for determining a location of a transducer on a subject's body for applying tumor treating fields. The method comprises determining a near-surface portion of a tumor in the subject's body, the near-surface portion of the tumor closer to a surface of the subject's body than other portions of the tumor; determining a near-tumor position on the subject's body, the near-tumor position on the subject's body closer to the near-surface portion of the tumor than other positions of the subject's body; determining an outer perimeter of the transducer, the transducer comprising a plurality of electrode elements electrically coupled to each other, the plurality of electrode elements of the transducer being located within the outer perimeter; and identifying a portion of the outer perimeter of the transducer to be located substantially at the near-tumor position on the subject's body.

Methods and apparatuses for delivering tumor treating fields to a subject's body for near-surface tumors

A transducer apparatus for delivering tumor treating fields to a subject's body, the transducer apparatus including: an array of electrodes, the array configured to be positioned over the subject's body with a front face of the array facing the subject's body, the array comprising electrode elements positioned in existing electrode positions arranged around a centroid of the array; an anisotropic material layer electrically coupled to the array of electrodes and located on a front side of the front face of the array; and at least one void space in the array of electrodes capable of enclosing an areal footprint equivalent to at least a portion of an areal footprint of at least one existing electrode position, and superimposable on at least a portion of at least one existing electrode position by rotation of the array around the centroid.

Shiftable transducer array with anisotropic material layer

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Haifa, Israel

Boaz Marsault