Comparison of two post-calibration correction methods for complex permittivity measurement of biological tissues up to 50 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1170-1175

  Tofighi, Mohammad Reza ^a,b   Daryoush, Afshin ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological tissue; Complex permittivity measurement; Microwave and millimeter wave; Network analyzer calibration; Test fixture

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; COMPLEX PERMITIVITY MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE AND MILIMETER WAVE; NETWORK ANALYZER CALIBRATION; TEST FIXTURE;

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PERMITTIVITY; TISSUE; TISSUE CULTURE;

MICROSTRIP DEVICES;

EID: 27744597326     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.808014     Document Type: Article

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