A data analysis application for a systematic reporting of dielectric properties of biological tissue

Abstract

The dielectric properties of biological tissues are the basis of new and existing medical devices which utilise microwaves. To date, numerous studies have been published which report on the dielectric properties for various biological tissues. When examining published literature, it is apparent that discrepancies in the methodology exist along with the way the data is analysed and reported. In this work, we present a data analysis application developed in Matlab which allows the user to import multiple dielectric data files and analyse them simultaneously. The analysis is developed as per a best-practices guidelines developed as consensus work within the COST MyWAVE network. [excerpt]