Experimental investigations on capacitive imaging of biological materials

Abstract

Soft tissues found all over our body are highly deformable structures having varied structural arrangements, constituents and composition. Since soft tissues are not easy to handle, tissue mimicking phantoms have been developed that mimics the properties of biological tissues. In this work, an attempt has been made to design a capacitance sensor array for capacitive imaging of biological materials. Further, tissue mimicking Agar-Agar phantoms was developed for testing the developed sensor. In this paper, the objectives, methodology and the observations are presented.