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Novel method of detecting cholesterol using microwaves
Author(s) -
Lonappan Anil
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.26794
Subject(s) - microwave , dielectric , cholesterol , materials science , blood cholesterol , biomedical engineering , analytical chemistry (journal) , optoelectronics , medicine , nuclear magnetic resonance , chemistry , physics , telecommunications , computer science , chromatography
This article reports a novel method of detecting cholesterol in blood based on the measurement of the dielectric properties at microwave frequencies.The measurements were made using rectangular cavity perturbation technique at the S‐band of microwave frequency with the different samples of blood obtained from healthy donors as well as from patients having cholesterol in their blood stream. It is observed that an appreciably change in the dielectric properties of patient samples with the normal healthy samples and this measurements were in good agreement with clinical analysis. These results indicate an alternate novel method of detecting the presence of cholesterol in blood using microwaves whereby can diagnose the onset of cardiovascular diseases. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 54:1212–1215, 2012; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26794