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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 26.
Published in final edited form as: Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2013 Feb 26;8584:10.1117/12.2004931. doi: 10.1117/12.2004931

Table 1.

Design properties for human tissues and antenna constituents: thermal properties [6, 27], biological properties [27] and dielectric properties at 1.85 GHz [28, 29].

Property ρ (kg/m3) Cp (J/kg/K) k (W/m/K) QM (W/m3) ωb (kg/s/m3) σ (S/m) ε r
Tissue
Skin 1109 3391 0.37 1827 2.064 1.257 43.765
White fat 911 2127 0.18 462 0.521 0.080 5.344
Brown fat 911 2503 0.26 2579 1.221 0.484 8.742
Muscle 1090 3421 0.49 1052 0.746 1.368 53.484