Modelling the electrical properties of tissue as a porous medium

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 7007-7022

  Smye, S W ^a   Evans, C J ^a   Robinson, M P ^b   Sleeman, B D ^c  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMITTIVITY; POROSITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

PERCOLATION PROBABILITY;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POROSITY;

EID: 36349009686     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/23/016     Document Type: Article

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