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A comparison of brain phantom relative permittivity with CST simulation library and existing research

Issue title: Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology – Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, 25–28 September 2014, Beijing, China

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Chew, Kim Mey | Seman, Norhudah; | Sudirman, Rubita | Yong, Ching Yee

Affiliations: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

Note: [] Corresponding author: Norhudah Seman, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia. Tel.: +607 55 35265 ext. 35265; Fax: +607 55 35252; E-mail: huda@fke.utm.my.

Keywords: Relative permittivity, comparison, human-like brain phantom, CST simulation application

DOI: 10.3233/BME-141027

Journal: Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 2161-2167, 2014

Published: 2014
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Abstract

The development of human-like brain phantom is important for data acquisition in microwave imaging. The characteristics of the phantom should be based on the real human body dielectric properties such as relative permittivity. The development of phantom includes the greymatter and whitematter regions, each with a relative permittivity of 38 and 28 respectively at 10 GHz frequency. Results were compared with the value obtained from the standard library of Computer Simulation Technology (CST) simulation application and the existing research by Fernandez and Gabriel. Our experimental results show a positive outcome, in which the proposed mixture was adequate to represent real human brain for data acquisition.

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