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In the present study, the resistivities of the live monkey skulls were measured in the frequency range of 1Hz-3 MHz and in a carefully controlled experimental situation. The measurement results showed that the resistivities of monkey skulls were inhomogeneous and ranged from 6630 to 11243 Ω.cm (f = 1 kHz). Due to the absence of the suture and pure compact skull, the resistivity variation of monkey skull is not remarkable compared to that of human skull. The resistivity spectroscopy of monkey skull showed that there was an inverse relationship between skull resistivity and frequency in a wide frequency range, especially when the frequency was higher than 10 kHz. In order to parameterize the resistivity spectroscopy properties of monkey skull, four characteristic parameters (ρ0, ρ ∞ , αand f c ) of resistivity spectroscopy were extracted and calculated respectively, and the characteristic frequency of monkey skull was around 750 kHz.
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Tang, C., You, F., Cheng, G., Gao, D., Fu, F., Dong, X. (2009). Resistivities of the live monkey skulls. In: Dössel, O., Schlegel, W.C. (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 25/7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03885-3_37
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