Simona Di Meo
The exact and unambiguous knowledge of the dielectric properties of biological tissues, both in frequency and in temperature, is of fundamental importance for the design of all types of microwave systems for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Several research groups around the world have been studying the dielectric properties of biological tissues for several years and numerous databases have been proposed, in very wide frequency and temperature ranges. However, the largest part of the proposed dielectric data have been measured after a setup calibration temperature at around 20 °C. In this talk, a preliminary evaluation of the impact of the setup calibration temperature on the dielectric measurement data of samples at increasing temperatures (from room temperature to ablative temperatures) is presented.
