Systems and methods for determining transducer locations for delivering tumor treating fields using a discretized model of a subject

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for selecting at least one transducer location for delivering tumor treating fields to a subject, the method including: obtaining a three-dimensional model which includes voxels associated with image data of the subject; computing a discretization of the model to obtain a discretized model; computing boundary conditions for the discretized model; computing a matrix A is based on the discretized model and a vector b based on the boundary conditions for each respective transducer location; computing a vector φ using the matrix A and the vector b for each transducer location, wherein the vector φ is computed by computationally solving an equation Aφ=b, wherein each vector φ represents electrical potentials for the discretized model for each respective transducer location; and selecting one or more transducer locations for delivering tumor treating fields to the subject based on the vectors φ.