Open-ended coaxial probe technique for dielectric measurement of biological tissues: Challenges and common practices

A La Gioia, E Porter, I Merunka, A Shahzad… - Diagnostics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Electromagnetic (EM) medical technologies are rapidly expanding worldwide for both
diagnostics and therapeutics. As these technologies are low-cost and minimally invasive …

Artificial human phantoms: Human proxy in testing microwave apparatuses that have electromagnetic interaction with the human body

AT Mobashsher, AM Abbosh - IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A quantitative and explicit validation of the performance and safety of microwave systems
and devices that have electromagnetic interaction with the human body is critical in the …

Thermal modelling using discrete vasculature for thermal therapy: A review

HP Kok, J Gellermann, CAT Van Den Berg… - international Journal …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Reliable temperature information during clinical hyperthermia and thermal ablation is
essential for adequate treatment control, but conventional temperature measurements do …

Portable microwave radiometer for wearable devices

SG Vesnin, MK Sedankin, LM Ovchinnikov… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new circuit of the miniature microwave radiometer for wearable
devices, which can be used to monitor the core body temperature (CBT) of internal human …

Non-invasive measurement of brain temperature with microwave radiometry: demonstration in a head phantom and clinical case

PR Stauffer, BW Snow, DB Rodrigues… - The …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
This study characterizes the sensitivity and accuracy of a non-invasive microwave
radiometric thermometer intended for monitoring body core temperature directly in brain to …

Design of a rapid diagnostic model for bladder compliance based on real-time intravesical pressure monitoring system

Z Ge, L Tang, Y Peng, M Zhang, J Tang, X Yang… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective The diagnosis of bladder dysfunction for children depends on the confirmation of
abnormal bladder shape and bladder compliance. The existing gold standard needs to …

Self-balanced near-field microwave radiometer for passive tissue thermometry

JP Issac, SP Sugumar, K Arunachalam - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medical microwave radiometry is a near-field passive thermometry technique that requires
highly sensitive and stable receiver to gather and process the ultra-low power thermal …

Possibilities of increasing the interference immunity of radiothermograph applicator antennas for brain diagnostics

VY Leushin, AG Gudkov, IO Porokhov… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2022 - Elsevier
The problems of interference immunity of medical radiothermographs are discussed. The
possibility of increasing the interference immunity of radiothermographs by optimizing the …

Microwave radiometry for noninvasive monitoring of brain temperature

DB Rodrigues, PR Stauffer, PJS Pereira… - … technologies for brain …, 2018 - Springer
Microwave radiometry is a passive and noninvasive technique that is able to measure deep
tissue temperature and track changes in thermal profiles in tissue up to 5 cm below the …

Stable microwave radiometry system for long term monitoring of deep tissue temperature

PR Stauffer, DB Rodriques, S Salahi… - … -based Treatment of …, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Background: There are numerous clinical applications for non-invasive monitoring of deep
tissue temperature. We present the design and experimental performance of a miniature …