Research Article

Study of Microwave Tomography Measurement Setup Configurations for Breast Cancer Detection Based on Breast Compression

Table 1

Mechanical and electrical properties of the different tissues present in the numerical phantoms.

Parameter Fat Fibroglandular Immersion medium

Young’s modulus 1 KPa 10 KPa
Poisson's ratio 0.49 0.49
Permittivity 7 45 15
Conductivity 0.16 S/m 1.36 S/m 0.4 S/m