Sensitivity and Sensing Depth Analysis of Open-ended Contact Probes for Cancer Diagnosis

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Abstract

Open-ended contact probes have been widely utilized in laboratory environment to quantify the dielectric properties of high permittivity and lossy materials such as biological tissues and other lossy liquids. At microwave frequencies, the dielectric properties of biological tissues have been quantified with open-ended contact probes method with the motivation of building microwave diagnostic and therapeutic technologies. The method is preferred to other microwave dielectric property measurement techniques due to broadband measurement capabilities and minimal sample preparation requirements. However, the measurement procedure is cumbersome and the measurements tend to be error-prone. The commercial probes can have error rates as high as 5% and it can increase with the cable movements, calibration degradation, and probe wear-off. Although the technique is powerful and able to measure the inherent dielectric property discrepancy between different tissues the applications are confined to laboratory use. To explore the true potential of this technique and enable the transition of this technique to a diagnostic technology, there is a need to improve the technique and analyze the performance in a layered heterogeneous medium. In this work, we performed simulations and measurements with open-ended contact probes having different aperture diameters. The probes are built with copper and Teflon sandwiched between inner and outer conductors. Measurements with open-ended coaxial probes are performed on layered medium emulating the dielectric properties of the biological tissues to analyze the sensing depth and sensitivity of four in-house fabricated open-ended coaxial probes. An in-house algorithm is utilized to retrieve the dielectric properties of the mediums utilized during this study.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring, PIERS-Spring 2019 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2523-2528
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728134031
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2019
Event2019 PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring, PIERS-Spring 2019 - Rome, Italy
Duration: 17 Jun 201920 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameProgress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium
Volume2019-June
ISSN (Print)1559-9450
ISSN (Electronic)1931-7360

Conference

Conference2019 PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring, PIERS-Spring 2019
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period17/06/1920/06/19

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.

Funding

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 750346 and from the Istanbul Technical University grant 41554.

FundersFunder number
Marie Sklodowska-Curie750346
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi41554

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