Ultra wideband fat tissue fabrication using different cross linking agent for microwave imaging

Abstract

The paper discusses the fabrication of fat tissue using glyoxal and glutaraldehyde as a cross linking agent to be used in breast phantom for microwave imaging application. The fabricated fat tissue’s dielectric constant is measured in the ultra-wideband frequency range of 3.1–10.6 GHz. In brief this paper addresses the two issues of breast phantom fabrication; first to simulate the wide range of permittivity of the breast fat tissue and secondly using different cross linking agent such as glyoxal and glutaraldehyde to replace formaldehyde. The previously reported fat tissue fabrication using formaldehyde as a cross linking agent was not safe for handling and hazardous for health. The fabricated fat tissue using the proposed material has shown that it has a close proximity of dielectric constant when compared with the real fat tissue fitted by using a Debye model.