Development of multi-layered biological tissue-equivalent phantom for HF band

Abstract

Evaluation of the interaction between the electromagnetic waves, radiated by mobile communications, broadcast, medical applications, and so forth, and the human body is indispensable. The interaction is generally estimated by numerical calculations and experimental evaluations. In these evaluations, biological tissue-equivalent phantoms, which are adjusted to have the same dielectric constants as human tissue, are generally used. Until now, various investigations have studied the phantoms. However, most of these studies have focused on the phantom for the very high frequency band (VHF) and above. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a multi-layered (muscle, fat and skin) tissue-equivalent phantom in the high frequency (HF) band.