Detection of tissue coagulation for microwave surgical devices

Abstract

This paper describes the detection of tissue coagulation for a microwave surgical device. This method uses variations in the electrical properties of biological tissue before and after heating. To evaluate the proposed method, we made coagulated tissue and measured the impedance of the tissue using the microwave surgical device. The results of the measurements show that the impedance of the heated tissue changed significantly due to tissue coagulation. This results implies that coagulation of tissue can be detected by variation of electrical impedance.