Dielectric Properties of Porcine Brain Tissue in the Transition from Life to Death at Frequencies from 800 to 1900 MHz

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 413-422

  Schmid, Gernot ^a   Neubauer, Georg ^a   Illievich, Udo M ^b   Aleschs, François ^b  

^a ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Postmortem changes; Radio frequences; Relative permittivity

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BRAIN; PERMITTIVITY; POTASH; TISSUE;

BRAIN TISSUE; CONDUCTIVITY; DIELECTRICS PROPERTY; EQUIVALENT CONDUCTIVITY; GRAY MATTER; MEASUREMENTS OF; PORCINE BRAIN TISSUE; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; RADIO FREQUENCE; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY;

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN TISSUE; BRAIN WATER; CADAVER; CONDUCTANCE; DEATH; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DOSIMETRY; GRAY MATTER; HEART ARREST; LIFE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SWINE; ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMPEDANCE; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MICROWAVES; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; RADIOMETRY; SWINE;

EID: 2142692175     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.10122     Document Type: Article

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