Patent ID: 8712500

Claim:
An image-monitoring method for an electroporation treatment, comprising: administrating a contrast agent into a patient; performing the electroporation treatment by an electroporation appliance comprising a plurality of treatment electrodes after administrating the contrast agent; performing a reference measurement by an image recording appliance immediately after the electroporation treatment; performing a continuous image monitoring measurement by the image recording appliance over a time interval after the electroporation treatment; determining a relative intracellular contrast agent concentration in comparison to an extracellular contrast agent concentration from the image monitoring measurement; determining an absolute intracellular contrast agent concentration from the image monitoring measurement; generating an output image showing a course of contrast agent concentration over the time interval by subtracting data in the reference measurement from data in the image monitoring measurement so that a contrast agent difference between an intracellular and an extracellular space in an area affected by the electroporation treatment is intensified; and displaying the relative and the absolute intracellular contrast agent concentration and the output image on a screen display.