Differences in the dielectric properties of various benign and malignant thyroid nodules
| Autor: | Shengyi Huang, Guoli Shao, Qiaohui Wang, Zenan Zou, Shun Yao, Shuai Han, Xuefei Yu, Yu Wang, Fei Chen, Zhai Cai, Yonghong Liu, Zhou Li, Yu lin, Weizhen Cai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Thyroid nodules
endocrine system Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Goiter Adenoma Chemistry Thyroid Electric Conductivity Nodule (medicine) General Medicine Dielectric medicine.disease Malignancy 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Carcinoma medicine Humans Thyroid Neoplasms Thyroid Nodule medicine.symptom |
| Zdroj: | Medical Physics. 48:760-769 |
| ISSN: | 2473-4209 0094-2405 |
| Popis: | PURPOSE This experiment was conducted to investigate the dielectric properties of different types of thyroid nodules. Our goal was to find a simple and fast method to detect thyroid diseases at different stages from the dielectric properties of thyroid nodules. METHODS We used the open-ended coaxial line method to measure the dielectric permittivities of thyroid tissues from 155 patients at frequencies ranging from 1 to 4000 MHz. Tissues that were investigated included normal thyroid tissue and benign and malignant thyroid nodules (nodular goiter, follicular adenoma, papillary carcinoma, and follicular carcinoma), as determined from pathological reports. Differences in dielectric properties were measured between each nodule and the surrounding 1 cm of tissue. RESULTS The analysis results revealed that the dielectric permittivity and conductivity values were positively correlated with the degree of malignancy of the nodule (normal |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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