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Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2019 Jan 10;66(9):2566–2575. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2019.2892303

TABLE I.

Dielectric properties of the background medium, adipose, and fibroglandular tissues used in the numerical phantom experiments for different breast densities at 1300 MHz

Breast Type	Background Medium		Adipose (Adp)		Fibroglandular (Fg)
Breast Type	ε_r	σ (S/m)	ε_r	σ (S/m)	ε_r	σ (S/m)
Fatty	13.6	0.87	8.0	0.17	8.8	0.195
Scattered	13.6	0.87	9.0	0.21	14.5	0.32
HD	22.4	1.26	12.8	0.36	21.0	0.61
XD	22.4	1.26	16.5	0.60	28.0	0.89