Author Affiliations
1School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China2Tianjin Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing Microelectronic Technology, Tianjin 300072, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Diagram of open-end coaxial probe measurement principle
Fig. 2. Experimental device. (a) Measurement equipment; (b) open-end coaxial probe; (c) network analyzer
Fig. 3. Dielectric properties of glucose aqueous solution with different concentrations. (a) Dielectric constant; (b) conductivity
Fig. 4. Fitting relation between Debye parameters and glucose aqueous solution concentration. (a) ; (b) Δε; (c) τ
Fig. 5. Single-order Debye model fitting of glucose aqueous solution with concentration of 200 mg·dl-1. (a) Dielectric constant; (b) conductivity
Fig. 6. Dielectric properties of five aqueous glucose solutions reconstructed by single-order Debye model. (a) Dielectric constant; (b) conductivity
Fig. 7. Five-layer earlobe electromagnetic model and transceiver antenna
Fig. 8. Single-order Debye model of skin and fat. (a) Dielectric constant; (b) conductivity
Fig. 9. Microwave signal transmitted by transmitting antenna. (a) Time domain diagram; (b) frequency domain diagram
Fig. 10. Changes of S21 at different glucose concentrations. (a) S21; (b) S21 difference; (c) absolute value of S21 difference
Fig. 11. Relationship between absolute value of S21 difference and glucose concentration at different frequency points. (a) 1.35 GHz; (b) 1.63 GHz; (c) 3.25 GHz; (d) 4 GHz
Fig. 12. Experimental environment. (a) Experimental device; (b) earlobe model and antenna
Fig. 13. Experimental measurement results. (a) S21; (b) S21 difference; (c) absolute value of S21 difference
Fig. 14. Relationship between absolute value of S21 difference and glucose concentration at different frequency points
Concentration /(mg·dl-1) | | Δε | τ /ps |
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0 | 9.991 | 69.155 | 9.26 | 100 | 10.028 | 69.034 | 9.24 | 200 | 10.142 | 68.782 | 9.22 | 300 | 10.483 | 68.375 | 9.28 | 400 | 10.956 | 67.901 | 9.36 | 500 | 11.267 | 67.550 | 9.42 | 600 | 11.514 | 67.263 | 9.47 | 700 | 12.260 | 66.479 | 9.57 | 800 | 12.342 | 66.348 | 9.57 | 900 | 12.670 | 65.953 | 9.62 | 1000 | 13.133 | 65.408 | 9.69 |
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Table 1. Fitting parameters of single-order Debye model of glucose aqueous solution with different concentrations
Concentration /(mg·dl-1) | Dielectricconstant | Conductivity /(S·m-1) |
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0 | 0.271 | 0.097 | 100 | 0.259 | 0.097 | 200 | 0.255 | 0.096 | 300 | 0.306 | 0.107 | 400 | 0.305 | 0.109 | 500 | 0.319 | 0.108 | 600 | 0.292 | 0.112 | 700 | 0.300 | 0.109 | 800 | 0.309 | 0.105 | 900 | 0.299 | 0.104 | 1000 | 0.307 | 0.105 |
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Table 2. Fitted RMSE of Debye model at different glucose concentrations
Parameter | RMSE |
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| 0.131 | Δε | 0.033 | τ /ps | 0.031 |
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Table 3. RMSE of quadratic polynomial fitting of Debye parameters
Biological tissue | | εs | τ /ps |
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Skin | 22.7680 | 42.4889 | 25.3633 | Fat | 2.2846 | 4.6088 | 9.2819 |
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Table 4. Single-order Debye parameters of skin and fat