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    • Detailed dielectric characterisation of the heart and great vessels 

      Istuk, Niko; McDermott, Barry; Porter, Emily; Santorelli, Adam; Abedi, Soroush; O’Halloran, Martin; Joachimowicz, Nadine; Roussel, Helene (IEEE, 2020-03-15)
      The dielectric properties of biological tissues play a significant role in the planning and development of electro- magnetic thermal therapies. In most cases in the literature, heart is considered as a homogeneous organ ...

    • Detection of vesicoureteral reflux using electrical impedance tomography 

      Dunne, Eoghan; O'Halloran, Martin; Craven, Darren; Puri, Prem; Frehill, Paul; Loughney, Sarah; Porter, Emily (IEEE, 2018-12-14)
      Objective: The purpose of this study is to detect vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) non-invasively using electrical impedance tomography (EIT). VUR is characterized by the backflow of urine from the bladder to the kidneys. ...

    • Dielectric properties of bones for the monitoring of osteoporosis 

      Amin, Bilal; Elahi, Muhammad Adnan; Shahzad, Atif; Porter, Emily; McDermott, Barry; O’Halloran, Martin (Springer, 2018-08-29)
      Osteoporosis is one of the most common diseases that leads to bone fractures. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry is currently employed to measure the bone mineral density and to diagnose osteoporosis. Alternatively, the ...

    • An empirical dielectric mixing model for biological tissues 

      Salahuddin, Saqib; McDermott, Barry; Porter, Emily; O’Halloran, Martin; Elahi, Muhammad Adnan; Shahzad, Atif (IEEE, 2019-03-31)
      Dielectric properties of biological tissues are critically important for various electromagnetic based medical therapeutic and diagnostic technologies. This paper attempts to develop an empirical dielectric mixture model ...

    • Feasibility of water content-based dielectric characterisation of biological tissues using mixture models 

      Balduino, Roberta; McDermott, Barry; Porter, Emily; Elahi, Muhammad Adnan; Shahzad, Atif; O'Halloran, Martin; Cavagnaro, Marta (IEEE, 2019-01-23)
      This study quantitatively examines the validity of mixture formulae as models to describe the microwave-range dielectric properties of biological tissue of varying water content. Mixture formulae, specifically the Maxwell ...

    • Gamma band light stimulation in human case studies: Groundwork for potential Alzheimer's disease treatment 

      Jones, Marggie; McDermott, Barry; Oliveira, Bárbara Luz; O'Brien, Aoife; Coogan, Declan; Lang, Mark; Moriarty, Niamh; Dowd, Eilis; Quinlan, Leo; Mc Ginley, Brian; Dunne, Eoghan; Newell, David; Porter, Emily; Elahi, Muhammad Adnan; O' Halloran, Martin; Shahzad, Atif (IOS Press, 2019-05-27)
      It is known that proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis are significantly reduced by 40¿Hz entrainment in mice. If this were to translate to humans, verifying that such a light stimulus can induce ...

    • Monitoring microwave thermal ablation using electrical impedance tomography: an experimental feasibility study 

      Bottiglieri, Anna; Dunne, Eoghan; McDermott, Barry; Cavagnaro, Marta; Porter, Emily; Farina, Laura (IEEE, 2020)
      Low-cost and reliable methods for monitoring the size of the ablation zone during microwave thermal ablation (MTA) are crucial in the oncological clinical practice. The aim of this work is to test the performance of ...

    • Multi-frequency symmetry difference electrical impedance tomography with machine learning for human stroke diagnosis 

      McDermott, Barry James; Elahi, Adnan; Santorelli, Adam; O'Halloran, Martin; Avery James; Porter, Emily (IOP Publishing, 2020-06-18)
      Objective: Multi-Frequency Symmetry Difference Electrical Impedance Tomography (MFSD-EIT) can robustly detect and identify unilateral perturbations in symmetric scenes. Here, an investigation is performed to assess if the ...

    • Static lesion detection in symmetric scenes using dual-frequency electrical impedance tomography 

      McDermott, Barry; O'Halloran, Martin; Porter, Emily (NUI Galway, 2019-01-18)
      Tissues have characteristic frequency dependent impendence to electrical current. This property is exploited by Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), an emerging biomedical imaging technique. In EIT, electrical conductivity ...