Articulo
Effects of cancellous bone dielectric variability on microwaves detection feasibility: a simulation study
Autor
Fajardo Freites, Jesús Ernesto
Vericat, Fernando
Carlevaro, Carlos Manuel
Irastorza, Ramiro Miguel
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Resumen
The biological variability and quality of trabecular bone yield variability of its dielectric properties(permittivity and conductivity). The feasibility of detecting such differences was studied in a tomographic array of16 monopole antennas using z-polarized electromagnetic waves (OEM) at a frequency of 1.3 GHz. Finite-DifferenceTime-Domain (FDTD) simulations were performed accounting for the documented dielectric variability of cancellousbone. A sensitivity analysis method was proposed in order to identify the parameters that most affect the detection. Instituto de Física de Líquidos y Sistemas Biológicos