Frontier Research on the Dielectric Properties of Biological Tissue

Project Information

BIOELECPRO

Grant agreement ID: 637780

DOI 10.3030/637780

Project closed

EC signature date 17 June 2015

Start date 1 October 2015

End date 30 September 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 499 329,00

EU contribution € 1 499 329,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY
Ireland

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

An investigation of the variation of dielectric properties of ovine lung tissue with temperature

Author(s): Julian Bonello, Muhammad Adnan Elahi, Emily Porter, Martin O’Hollaran, Lourdes Farrugia, Charles V Sammut
Published in: Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, Issue 5/4, 2019, Page(s) 045024, ISSN 2057-1976
Publisher: Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express
DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/aaee40

Heparin as an anticoagulant for the dielectric measurement of blood

Author(s): Eoghan Dunne, Martin O'Halloran, Emily Porter, Julian Bonello, Lourdes Farrugia, Charles V. Sammut, Pierre Schembri-Wismayer
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Issue 26/1, 2019, Page(s) 229-234, ISSN 1070-9878
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tdei.2018.007508

Investigation of Histology Region in Dielectric Measurements of Heterogeneous Tissues

Author(s): Emily Porter, Martin O'Halloran
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Issue 65/10, 2017, Page(s) 5541-5552, ISSN 0018-926X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tap.2017.2741026

A review of the dielectric properties of the bone for low frequency medical technologies

Author(s): Bilal Amin, Muhammad Adnan Elahi, Atif Shahzad, Emily Porter, Martin O’Halloran
Published in: Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, Issue 5/2, 2019, Page(s) 022001, ISSN 2057-1976
Publisher: Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express
DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/aaf210

Brain haemorrhage detection using a SVM classifier with electrical impedance tomography measurement frames

Author(s): Barry McDermott, Martin O’Halloran, Emily Porter, Adam Santorelli
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 13/7, 2018, Page(s) e0200469, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200469

Investigation of the effect of dehydration on tissue dielectric properties in ex vivo measurements

Author(s): Atif Shahzad, Sonja Khan, Marggie Jones, Roisin M Dwyer, Martin O’Halloran
Published in: Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, Issue 3/4, 2017, Page(s) 045001, ISSN 2057-1976
Publisher: Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express
DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/aa74c4

Modeling of the dielectric properties of biological tissues within the histology region

Author(s): Emily Porter, Alessandra La Gioia, Adam Santorelli, Martin O'Halloran
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Issue 24/5, 2017, Page(s) 3290-3301, ISSN 1070-9878
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tdei.2017.006690

Minimum information for dielectric measurements of biological tissues (MINDER): A framework for repeatable and reusable data

Author(s): Emily Porter, Alessandra La Gioia, Saqib Salahuddin, Stefan Decker, Atif Shahzad, M. Adnan Elahi, Martin O'Halloran, Oya Beyan
Published in: International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, Issue 28/3, 2018, Page(s) e21201, ISSN 1096-4290
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mmce.21201

A realistic pelvic phantom for electrical impedance measurement

Author(s): Eoghan Dunne, Brian McGinley, Martin O’Halloran, Emily Porter
Published in: Physiological Measurement, Issue 39/3, 2018, Page(s) 034001, ISSN 1361-6579
Publisher: Physiological Measurement
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/aaa3c0

Numerical evaluation of microwave thermal ablation to treat small adrenocortical masses

Author(s): Giuseppe Ruvio, Jimmy Eaton-Evans, Atif Shahzad, Martin O'Halloran
Published in: International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, Issue 28/3, 2018, Page(s) e21236, ISSN 1096-4290
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/mmce.21236

Supervised Learning Classifiers for Electrical Impedance-based Bladder State Detection

Author(s): Eoghan Dunne, Adam Santorelli, Brian McGinley, Geraldine Leader, Martin O’Halloran, Emily Porter
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 8/1, 2018, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-23786-5

Parameter Search Algorithms for Microwave Radar-Based Breast Imaging: Focal Quality Metrics as Fitness Functions

Author(s): Declan O’Loughlin, Bárbara Oliveira, Muhammad Elahi, Martin Glavin, Edward Jones, Milica Popović, Martin O’Halloran
Published in: Sensors, Issue 17/12, 2017, Page(s) 2823, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s17122823

Open-Ended Coaxial Probe Technique for Dielectric Measurement of Biological Tissues: Challenges and Common Practices

Author(s): Alessandra La Gioia, Emily Porter, Ilja Merunka, Atif Shahzad, Saqib Salahuddin, Marggie Jones, Martin O’Halloran
Published in: Diagnostics, Issue 8/2, 2018, Page(s) 40, ISSN 2075-4418
Publisher: Diagnostics
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics8020040

Image-based classification of bladder state using electrical impedance tomography

Author(s): Eoghan Dunne, Adam Santorelli, Brian McGinley, Geraldine Leader, Martin O’Halloran, Emily Porter
Published in: Physiological Measurement, Issue 39/12, 2018, Page(s) 124001, ISSN 1361-6579
Publisher: Physiol Meas.
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/aae6ed

Effect of logarithmic and linear frequency scales on parametric modelling of tissue dielectric data

Author(s): Saqib Salahuddin, Emily Porter, Paul M Meaney, Martin O?Halloran
Published in: Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, Issue 3/1, 2017, Page(s) 015020, ISSN 2057-1976
Publisher: Biomed Phys Eng Express
DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/aa59db

Conference proceedings (7)

Impact of histology region size on measured dielectric properties of biological tissues

Author(s): E. Porter, A. La Gioia, M. O'Halloran
Published in: 2017 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring (PIERS), 2017, Page(s) 3406-3411, ISBN 978-1-5090-6269-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/piers.2017.8262349

Comparison of in-vivo and ex-vivo dielectric properties of biological tissues

Author(s): Saqib Salahuddin, Alessandra La Gioia, Muhammad Adnan Elahi, Emily Porter, Martin O'Halloran, Atif Shahzad
Published in: 2017 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2017, Page(s) 582-585, ISBN 978-1-5090-4451-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iceaa.2017.8065312

Significance of heterogeneities in accurate dielectric measurements of biological tissues

Author(s): Emily Porter, Alessandra La Gioia, Muhammad A. Elahi, Martin O'Halloran
Published in: 2017 XXXIInd General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), 2017, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-90-825987-0-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/ursigass.2017.8104989

Impact of Radial Heterogeneities of Biological Tissues on Dielectric Measurements

Author(s): A. La Gioia, E. Porter, S. Salahuddin, M. O'Halloran
Published in: 2017 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2017, Page(s) 421-424, ISBN 978-1-5090-4451-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iceaa.2017.8065267

Examination of the sensing radius of open-ended coaxial probes in dielectric measurements of biological tissues

Author(s): Alessandra La Gioia, Emily Porter, Martin O'Halloran
Published in: 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2017, Page(s) 215-216, ISBN 978-1-5386-3284-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/apusncursinrsm.2017.8072150

Technological requirements for microwave ablation of adrenal masses

Author(s): Hojjatollah Fallahi, Atif Shahzad, Daniel Clausing, Martin O'Halloran, M. Conall Dennedy, Punit Prakash
Published in: 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2017, Page(s) 3713-3716, ISBN 978-8-8907-0187-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/eucap.2017.7928268

Broadband dielectric properties of adrenal gland for accurate anatomical modelling in medical applications

Author(s): A. Shahzad, D. Clausing, P. Prakash, M. C. Dennedy, M. O'Halloran
Published in: 2017 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2017, Page(s) 1465-1468, ISBN 978-1-5090-4451-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iceaa.2017.8065558