Project: Microwaves

Contact: V. Tishkova

This project aims at using microwaves to probe tissues and bio-fluids: The symptoms of hypo- and hyperglycemia in diabetics are currently managed with invasive or at least semi-invasive medical devices. These solutions are restrictive, painful and carry significant infectious risks. At present, there are no purely non-invasive solutions on the medical device market. Our goal is to propose a non-invasive blood glucose sensor based on microwave probing. For this purpose we use an antenna array positioned like in a tomograph. The concept of this sensor is based on the dependence of dielectric quantities of tissues and bio-fluids (figure). (Progress In Electromagnetics Research M 102:193-206 (2021))

The concept of an armband with several antennas (sources and/or receivers) to be placed around the arm, an example of modeling the propagation of an electromagnetic (microwave) in an arm phantom and the realization of this electromagnetic phantom for the experiment.

This study is the subject of a collaboration with the Fresnel Institute.

Non-permanent staff involved in the project :

2020- 2023 Clément Buisson, Doctorant en co-tutelle avec L’institut Fresnel