Millimetre wave radiometers for medical diagnostics of human skin

Amani Yousef Owda; Neil Salmon; Nacer Ddine Rezgui; Sergiy Shylo

doi:10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234132

Millimetre wave radiometers for medical diagnostics of human skin

Amani Yousef Owda, Neil Salmon, Nacer Ddine Rezgui, Sergiy Shylo

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Abstract

A technique to measure the human skin emissivity in vivo is described for the frequency band 80-100 GHz. Emissivity measurements were performed on 60 participants, 35 males and 25 females, with ages ranging from 20 to 60 years. Results show that the emissivity of males is higher than that of females. The study suggests a trend in the emissivities with age and gender, which might be due to variations of skin thickness and water content. As non-contact screening is desirable in medical applications, passive millimeter-wave sensing could be a means of achieving this in the diagnosis of skin disease or damage, where the disease/damage alters the water content or the skin thickness.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE SENSORS 2017 - Conference Proceedings
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1-3
Number of pages	3
Volume	2017-December
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509010127
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234132
Publication status	Published - 25 Dec 2017
Event	16th IEEE SENSORS Conference, ICSENS 2017 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 30 Oct 2017 → 1 Nov 2017

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Conference	16th IEEE SENSORS Conference, ICSENS 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	30/10/17 → 1/11/17

Keywords

emissivity
millimeter wave
radiometric

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