K2  RF, Microwave and THz Diagnostics/ Therapeutics

Thursday, January 10  13:20-16:00  Room 150

Session Chairs:  John Stang, Erdem Topsakal

13:20  K2-1  NEURAL NETWORK ASSISTED MULTI-MODALITY MICROWAVE INVERSE SCATTERING FOR BRAIN DIELECTRIC IMAGING

Guanbo Chen, Pratik Shah, John Stang*, Mahta Moghaddam

EE - Electrophysics, USC, Los Angeles


13:40  K2-2  EFFECT OF WEAK STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS ON CELL PROLIFERATION AND REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES OF HT-1080 HUMAN FIBROSARCOMA CELLS

Hakki Gurhan*, Sahithi Kandala, Frank Barnes

Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO


14:00  K2-3  IN VITRO BIOCOMPATIBILITY OF DUAL-BAND TIN ANTENNA IN EXCITED AND NON-EXCITED ENVIRONMENTS IN REAL TIME

Madeline Hays*1,2, Lynn E. Secondo3, Ryan Green2, Nastassja Lewinski3, Erdem Topsakal2

1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
3Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA


14:20  K2-4  DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF BROWN AND WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE IN RODENT MODEL FROM 0.5 GHZ TO 50 GHZ

Nikhat Nusrat*, Sydney Wojcieszak, Madeline Hays, Erdem Topsakal

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia


14:40  K2-5  AIRBORNE INSECTS RADAR SCATTERING CHARACTERISTICS UTILIZING ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING

Omar Alzaabi*1, Diego Peņaloza-Aponte1, Julio Urbina1, James Breakall1, Michael Lanagan2

1Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Pennsylvania
2Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Pennsylvania


15:20  K2-6  VALIDATION OF AN ARM-SWINGING HUMAN PHANTOM MODEL FOR THE STUDY OF WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS

George Lee*, Brian Garner, Yang Li

School of Engineering and Computer Science, Baylor University, Waco, TX


15:40  K2-7  TITANIUM NITRIDE ANTENNAS FOR MEDICAL WIRELESS DATA TELEMETRY

Ryan Assi*, Ryan Green, Vitaliy Avrutin, Erdem Topsakal

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia