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Dielectric Properties for Differentiating Normal and Malignant Thyroid Tissues.
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- Real-Time Differentiation Between Benign and Malignant Breast Tumors and Other Tissues Using Dielectric Properties.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2025Article
- Integrating Complex Permittivity Measurements with Histological Analysis for Advanced Tissue Characterization.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Electrical impedance-based tissue classification for bladder tumor differentiation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Self-sensing intelligent microrobots for noninvasive and wireless monitoring systems.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2023Article
- Bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy can assist to identify the parathyroid gland during thyroid surgery.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- Classification of Metastatic and Non-Metastatic Thoracic Lymph Nodes in Lung Cancer Patients Based on Dielectric Properties Using Adaptive Probabilistic Neural Networks.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Article
- [Discrimination of lung cancer and adjacent normal tissues based on permittivity by optimized probabilistic neural network].Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2020Article
- [Differences in dielectric properties between mucosal and serosal surface of malignant colorectal tissues, adjacent tissues at 1 cm and 3 cm and normal colorectal tissues].Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2018Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND The incidence rate of thyroid cancer has increased greatly during the last few decades, and highly sensitive and specific methods for early diagnosis and prognostic evaluation remain lacking. In this study, we investigated a novel approach based on microwave theory to detect thyroid cancer. MATERIAL AND METHODS Freshly excised thyroid tissues (n=236) from 48 patients were identified as normal or malignant using histology. Each sample was measured for effective dielectric permittivity and effective conductivity (0.5-8 GHz). The means of each of these parameters of the normal and malignant groups were compared. RESULTS The effective dielectric permittivities of normal and malignant thyroid tissues were 24.026±1.951 to 17.950±1.648 and 69.782±2.734 to 57.356±1.802, respectively. Also, as a function of frequency, the effective conductivities of normal and malignant thyroid cancer were 0.8395±0.2013 to 1.8730±0.0979 and 1.8960±0.5024 to 9.7461±0.9349 (S/m), respectively. The mean effective dielectric permittivities and effective conductivities of normal thyroid tissues were significantly lower than that of thyroid cancer tissues. CONCLUSIONS Measuring the effective dielectric permittivity and effective conductivity of excised thyroid tissues may be a new and viable method to determine malignancy in thyroid cancer.
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