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1Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 600 036, India.
Abstract:
A noncontact and nondestructive method of measuring at microwave frequencies the complex permittivity of a selected region in a dielectric slab is described. For this purpose the test dielectric sample is irradiated with a focused (gaussian) microwave beam by means of a suitable applicator. From the characteristics of the reflected beam wave measured at a reflectometric bridge arrangement, the complex permittivity of the exposed region is determined. Some theoretical and experimental results analysing the test conditions are presented. Application of this method to biological in vivo (or in vitro) measurements of dielectric properties of bones and tissues, with selective partial-body microwave irradiation, is discussed.
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