Modelling the electrical impedivity of normal and premalignant cervical tissue

Electronics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 1603-1604

  Walker, D C ^a   Brown, B H ^a   Hose, D R ^a   Smallwood, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMITTIVITY; PROBES;

CERVICAL TISSUE; FOUR ELECTRODE PENCIL PROBES;

TISSUE;

EID: 0034648569     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20001118     Document Type: Article

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