Microwave characterization of breast‐phantom materials

Abstract

Abstract Corn syrup and glycerine are proposed as suitable breast‐phantom materials. These materials when diluted with water in definite proportions can serve as phantoms for normal, benign, and malign breast‐tissue samples. Dielectric permittivity and conductivity studies of these materials are performed using the cavity‐perturbation technique in the frequency range of 2.4–3.2 GHz. The results are compared with the in vitro breast‐tissue data and good agreement is reported. These materials are also useful as coupling media in microwave medical imaging. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 43: 506–508, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.20517