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Contactless passive diagnosis for brain intracranial applications: A study using dielectric matching materials

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Contactless passive diagnosis for brain intracranial applications: A study using dielectric matching materials (EN)
Karanasiou, IS (EN)
Uzunoglu, NK (EN)
Gouzouasis, IA (EN)
Karathanasis, KT (EN)
journalArticle (EN)
2014-03-01T01:33:03Z
2010 (EN)
A prototype system for passive intracranial monitoring using microwave radiometry is proposed. It comprises an ellipsoidal conductive wall cavity to achieve beamforming and focusing, in conjunction with sensitive multiband receivers for detection. The system has already shown the capability to provide temperature and/or conductivity variations in phantoms and biological tissue. In this article, a variant of the initially constructed modality is theoretically and experimentally investigated. Specifically, dielectric matching materials are used in an effort to improve the system's focusing attributes. The theoretical study investigates the effect of dielectric matching materials on the system's detection depth, whereas measurements with phantoms focus on the investigation of the system's detection level and spatial resolution. The combined results suggest that the dielectric matching layers lead to the improvement of the system's detection depth and temperature detection level. Also, the system's spatial resolution is explored at various experimental setups. Theoretical and experimental results conclude that with the appropriate combination of operation frequencies and dielectric layers, it is possible to monitor areas of interest inside human head models with a variety of detection depths and spatial resolutions. Bioelectromagnetics 31:335-349, 2010. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc. (EN)
Biology (EN)
Biophysics (EN)
Brain temperature fluctuations (EN)
HUMAN VISUAL-CORTEX (EN)
TEMPERATURE (EN)
HYPERTHERMIA SYSTEM (EN)
Ellipsoidal cavity (EN)
FOCUSING PROPERTIES (EN)
FREQUENCY (EN)
Conductivity variations (EN)
Multiband radiometric receiver (EN)
TISSUES (EN)
Microwave radiometry (EN)
MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY (EN)
Bioelectromagnetics (EN)
English
WILEY-LISS (EN)
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