title: Effective dielectric properties of biological cells: generalization of the spectral density function approach.
abstract: We suggest an extension of the spectral density function approach to describe the complex dielectric response of suspensions of arbitrarily shaped particles having a thin shell, in particular, biological cells. The approach is shown to give analytical results in some simple but practically important cases. In the general case, for the 3-phase systems it reduces to determination of the spectral density function for the suspension of a certain kind. Prospects and limitations of the approach, as well as practical examples, are also considered.
authors: Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan, ROC. anatolii@mail.ncku.edu.tw
authors: Anatoliy V
authors: AV
authors: Goncharenko
authors: Yia-Chung
authors: YC
authors: Chang
mesh_terms: D048430:Cell Shape; D017097:Electric Impedance; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D008954:Models, Biological; D013057:Spectrum Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D013535:Suspensions
chemical_list: D013535:Suspensions