1989
DOI: 10.1364/josaa.6.001441
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Short-rise-time microwave pulse propagation through dispersive biological media

Abstract: Numerical research is reported on the propagation of short microwave pulses into living, biological materials. These materials are dispersive, and data on the dielectric constant and conductivity for these materials follow a Debye model. A Fourier-series calculation is presented that predicts the occurrence of Brillouin precursors when the incident pulses have sufficiently short rise times. These transients are attenuated with increasing propagation distance but are attenuated more slowly than the carrier freq… Show more

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“…Introduction. The study of transient electromagnetic waves in lossy dispersive dielectrics is of great interest due to numerous applications [AMP94,APM89]. These include microwave imaging for medical applications in which one seeks to investigate the internal structure of an object (the human body) by means of electromagnetic fields at microwave frequencies (300 MHz -30 GHz).…”
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“…Introduction. The study of transient electromagnetic waves in lossy dispersive dielectrics is of great interest due to numerous applications [AMP94,APM89]. These include microwave imaging for medical applications in which one seeks to investigate the internal structure of an object (the human body) by means of electromagnetic fields at microwave frequencies (300 MHz -30 GHz).…”
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“…The method we use is based on the Fourier transform that allows us to investigate the dynamical evolution of electromagnetic pulses in linear, homogeneous, dispersive media by conducting numerical experiments. Previous investigators have used a Fourier series calculation to successfully predict the occurrence of so-called Brillouin precursors in a water half-space for incident pulses having sufficiently short rise times [1]. This report documents the computation of propagated waveforms in linear dispersive half-spaces characterized by Debye and Lorentz permittivity models.…”
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“…The study of transient electromagetic waves in lossy dispersive dielectrics is of great interest due to numerous applications [AMP94,APM89]. These include microwave imaging for medical applications in which one seeks to investigate the internal structure of an object (the human body) by means of electromagnetic fields at microwave frequencies (300 MHz -30 GHz).…”
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confidence: 99%