Dielectric properties of human normal, malignant and cirrhotic liver tissue: In vivo and ex vivo measurements from 0.5 to 20 GHz using a precision open-ended coaxial probe

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 4707-4719

  O'Rourke, Ann P ^a   Lazebnik, Mariya ^b   Bertram, John M ^b   Converse, Mark C ^a   Hagness, Susan C ^b   Webster, John G ^b   Mahvi, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; SURGERY;

COAXIAL PROBES; COLE-COLE MODEL; HEPATIC MALIGNANCIES; SURGICAL RESECTION;

TISSUE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RAT; RECTUM CANCER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34547132549     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/15/022     Document Type: Article

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