Patterns of Temporal Changes in Tissue Dielectric Constant as Indices of Localized Skin Water Changes in Women Treated for Breast Cancer: A Pilot Study

摘要

Background: Our goal was to characterize temporal patterns of skin Tissue Dielectric Constant (TDC) as a foundation for possible TDC use to detect and quantify lymphedema. Although limb volumes and bioimpedance analysis (BIA) are used for this purpose, potential TDC-method advantages are that it can be done in about 10 seconds at any body site to depths from 0.5 to 5.0 mm below the epidermis.