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Finite-Difference Time-Domain Modeling for Electromagnetic Wave Analysis of Human Voxel Model at Millimeter-Wave Frequencies
摘要： The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modeling of a human voxel model at millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies is presented. It is very important to develop the proper geometrical and electrical modeling of a human voxel model suitable for accurate electromagnetic (EM) analysis. Although there are many human phantom models available, their voxel resolution is too poor to use for the FDTD study of EM wave interaction with human tissues. In this paper, we develop a proper human voxel model suitable for mmWave FDTD analysis using the voxel resolution enhancement technique and the image smoothing technique. The former can improve the resolution of the human voxel model and the latter can alleviate staircasing boundaries of the human voxel model. Quadratic complex rational function is employed for the electrical modeling of human tissues in the frequency range of 6–100 GHz. Massage passing interface-based parallel processing is also applied to dramatically speed up FDTD calculations. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the validity of the mmWave FDTD simulator developed here for bio electromagnetics studies.
关键词： human tissue,electromagnetic wave,Doppler radar,dispersion model,bioelectromagnetics,Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method,parallel processing
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Murine <i>vs</i> human tissue compositions: implications of using human tissue compositions for photon energy absorption in mice
摘要： To investigate the implications of using human tissue compositions for dose calculations in mice for kilovoltage photon beams. Dual energy CT (DECT) images of 9 female mice were used to extract the effective atomic number Zeff and the relative electron density ρe for each voxel in the images. To investigate the influence of the tissue compositions on the absorbed radiation dose for a typical kilovoltage photon beam, mass energy-absorption coefficients μen/ρ were calculated for 10 different tissues in each mouse. Differences between human and murine tissue compositions can lead to errors around 7.5 % for soft tissues and 20.1 % for bone tissues in μen/ρ values for kilovoltage photon beams. When considering the spread within tissues, these errors can increase up to 17.5 % for soft tissues and 53.9 % for bone tissues within only a single standard deviation away from the mean tissue value. This study illustrates the need for murine reference tissue data. However, assigning only a single mean reference value to an entire tissue can still lead to large errors in dose calculations given the large spread within tissues of μen/ρ values found in this study. Therefore, new methods such as DECT and spectral CT imaging need to be explored, which can be important next steps in improving tissue assignment for dose calculations in small animal radiotherapy.
关键词： DECT,dose calculations,photon energy absorption,kilovoltage photon beams,spectral CT imaging,murine vs human tissue compositions
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04