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Measurement of the electrical impedance of biological tissue in vitro and in vivo has entered prominently into three classes of biological research and biomedical applications. Pioneered some half century ago by Fricke (1922, 1924, 1925A, 1925B) and perfected by his followers Cole and Curtis (1934, 1950), measurements of the electrical self-impedance of a variety of cell and tissue systems were made across the audio, lower radio, and even into the medium to high radio frequencies. These data were examined most commonly in the more familiar impedance domain comprised of resistance and reactance rather than in the electrically equivalent admittance domain of conductance and susceptance, thus giving, unintentionally, an implicit preference to serially organized circuit models.
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Schmitt, O.H. (1979). Mutual Impedivity Spectrometry and the Feasibility of its Incorporation into Tissue-Diagnostic Anatomical Reconstitution and Multivariate Time-Coherent Physiological Measurements. In: Preston, K., Taylor, K.J.W., Johnson, S.A., Ayers, W.R. (eds) Medical Imaging Techniques. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3486-6_20
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