Title :
Complex resonant frequencies of biological targets for microwave imaging applications
Author :
Dewald, S. ; Bansal, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng. & Inf. Technol., Karlsruhe Univ., Germany
fDate :
12/5/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors report on the complex resonant frequencies of a lossy dielectric sphere immersed in a lossy dielectric medium and their potential application to the classification of suspicious growths in breast cancer diagnosis using microwave imaging.
Keywords :
biomedical imaging; cancer; dielectric properties; microwave imaging; physiological models; resonance; tumours; breast cancer diagnosis; complex resonant frequencies; lossy dielectric medium; lossy dielectric sphere; microwave imaging; suspicious growths classification; tumour modelling;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20021141
