Table 5.

Guidelines for reporting on future studies describing ablation experiments

Variable	Value
Type of experiments	Ex vivo (perfused, non-perfused), in vivo, clinical
Subjects	animal (porcine, bovine), human
Type of liver parenchyma	normal, cirrhosis, fibrosis, steatotic
Device
Applied energy (kJ)	Energy = ablation time (seconds) × power (Watt) / 1000
Ablation diameters (cm)	Long-axis diameter (LAD) and short-axis diameter (SAD)
Ablation zone volume (mL)	$V=\frac{4}{3}\pi \left(\mathit{LAD}/2\right){\left(\mathit{SAD}/2\right)}^2$
Sphericity index	SI = SAD2/LAD2

LAD long-axis diameter, SAD short-axis diameter