TITLE:
Dielectric Properties of Human Normal and Malignant Liver Tissue: A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics Approach
AUTHORS:
Francesco Farsaci, Annamaria Russo, Silvana Ficarra, Ester Tellone
KEYWORDS:
Biothermodynamics, Dielectric, Spectroscopy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.2 No.3,
March
25,
2015
ABSTRACT: In this paper we will show the possibility of studying physical
properties and irreversible phenomena that occur in biological tissues by
applying the dielectric Kluitenberg’s non-equilibrium thermodynamic theory.
Namely, we shall use some recent extensions of this theory that allows deducing
its main characteristic parameters from experimental measurements. We determine
frequency spectrum for phenomenological and state coefficients of the non-equilibrium
thermodynamic approach. Applying these results to the study of human liver
tumor and normal liver we show, for comparison, that it is possible to
determine the difference, in some detail, of the amount of single irreversible
phenomena occurring inside them.