Open-ended coaxial probe technique for dielectric measurement of biological tissues: Challenges and common practices

A La Gioia, E Porter, I Merunka, A Shahzad… - Diagnostics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Electromagnetic (EM) medical technologies are rapidly expanding worldwide for both
diagnostics and therapeutics. As these technologies are low-cost and minimally invasive …

Microwave Breast Imaging: Experimental tumour phantoms for the evaluation of new breast cancer diagnosis systems

BL Oliveira, D O'Loughlin, M O'Halloran… - Biomedical Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a new set of tumour phantoms for the experimental evaluation of Microwave
Breast Imaging (MBI) as a method to diagnose breast cancer is presented. The phantoms …

In Vivo Human Skin Dielectric Properties Characterization and Statistical Analysis at Frequencies From 1 to 30 GHz

SAR Naqvi, M Manoufali, B Mohammed… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precise data acquisition and modeling of healthy dermal dielectric properties are critical for
accurate skin anomaly detection studies. For this purpose, an extensive campaign of around …

The complex permittivity of biological tissues: A practical measurement guideline

L Farrugia, E Porter, RC Conceição, S Di Meo… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the significant number of studies published on the measurements of complex
permittivity of biological tissues in the last thirty years, implementing a successful …

Dielectric properties of ovine heart at microwave frequencies

N Ištuk, E Porter, D O'loughlin, B McDermott… - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accurate knowledge of the dielectric properties of biological tissues is important in dosimetry
studies and for medical diagnostic, monitoring and therapeutic technologies. In particular …

Broadband lung dielectric properties over the ablative temperature range: Experimental measurements and parametric models

J Sebek, R Bortel, P Prakash - Medical physics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Computational models of microwave tissue ablation are widely used to guide the
development of ablation devices, and are increasingly being used for the development of …

Investigation of histology radius for dielectric characterisation of heterogeneous materials

A La Gioia, M O'Halloran, A Elahi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Knowledge of the dielectric properties of biological tissues is fundamental in the design of
novel electromagnetic-based medical devices. Tissue dielectric properties are typically …

Modelling the sensing radius of a coaxial probe for dielectric characterisation of biological tissues

A La Gioia, M O'Halloran, E Porter - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The open-ended coaxial probe is the most common measurement tool used to dielectrically
characterize biological tissues. Most healthy and malignant biological tissues are …

Quantification of the sensing radius of a coaxial probe for accurate interpretation of heterogeneous tissue dielectric data

A La Gioia, S Salahuddin… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate tissue dielectric measurements are crucial for the development of electromagnetic
diagnostic and therapeutic devices that are designed based on estimates of the dielectric …

Dielectric characterization of healthy human teeth from 0.5 to 18 ghz with an open-ended coaxial probe

M Berezhanska, DM Godinho, P Maló, RC Conceição - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Dental caries is a major oral health issue which compromises oral health, as it is the main
cause of oral pain and tooth loss. Early caries detection is essential for effective clinical …