Table 1.

Measured dielectric properties. The method used was based on the work of Zajíček et al. [30]. 51.3 mM Saline water was used to verify the accuracy of the measurement, and the fabricated phantom properties were measured using an open-ended probe.

Material	51.3 mM Saline		Phantom
	εr	σ (S/m)	εr	σ (S/m)
Estimated value	77.98	0.60	51.00	0.57
Measured value	77.62	0.59	47.76	0.62
Difference	0.4%	1.6%	−6.4%	+8.7%