Sarnago, HéctorLucía, ÓscarNaval, AlejandroBurdío, José M.Castellví Fernández, QuimIvorra Cano, Antoni, 1974-2016-04-212016-04-212016Sarnago H, Lucía Ó, Naval A, Burdío JM, Castellví Q, Ivorra A. A versatile multilevel converter platform for cancer treatment using irreversible electroporation. IEEE J Emerg Sel Top Power Electron. 2016;4(1):236-42. doi:10.1109/JESTPE.2015.25123242168-6777http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26153Electroporation is an effective technique based on applying an electric field to cells, commonly used to increase the effectivity of drug and gene delivery. When the applied electric field is strong enough, it can be used for selective cell death with promising results in cancer treatment. This paper proposes the development of a modular multilevel topology in order to provide a high-performance tool for research in electroporation. The proposed converter based on a scalable multicell approach is detailed and analyzed in this paper, and an experimental prototype has been designed and built. The experimental results prove the feasibility of this proposal to enable advanced electroporation techniques.application/pdfeng© 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works./nThe final published article can be found at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7365415info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JESTPE.2015.2512324ElectroporationMultilevel converterPower electronicsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess