Patent ID: 8380283

Claim:
A method for implementing an irreversible electroporation treatment, comprising the steps of: placing a patient in a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising a plurality of components that participate in acquisition of magnetic resonance image data from the patient said plurality of components including a gradient amplifier and multiple gradient coils supplied with power from said gradient amplifier via a plurality of channels respectively for said multiple gradient coils, and a control device configured to generate pulse sequences supplied to said gradient amplifier to operate said multiple gradient coils in said acquisition of magnetic resonance image data from the patient; providing said gradient amplifier with an additional channel, that is not used in said acquisition of magnetic resonance image data from the patient, and connecting said additional channel to at least two magnetic resonance-compatible irreversible electroporation treatment electrodes; conducting an irreversible electroporation treatment of the patient in the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus by physical interaction of said at least two magnetic resonance-compatible irreversible electroporation treatment electrodes with said patient, using an electroporation pulse sequence, supplied by said control device via said additional channel to said magnetic resonance-compatible treatment electrodes; and during said irreversible electroporation treatment, obtaining magnetic resonance exposures of the patient using said magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, including interaction with said magnetic resonance-compatible irreversible electroporation treatment electrodes, and visually monitoring said irreversible electroporation treatment using said magnetic resonance exposures.