Author(s)

Anil Lonappan^1*, Ernest Remy Hervé Ebell’a Dallé², Thomas Joachim Odhiambo Afullo³, Williams Mark Uren Daniels²

¹Department of Electrical Engineering, Mangosuthu University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
²College of Health Sciences, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
³School of Electrical Electronic and Computer Engineering, Howard College, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

This communication presents a new method of detecting the behaviour pattern in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats based on the measurement of the dielectric properties of blood plasma at microwave frequencies at different periods of time. The microwave measurements were performed by rectangular cavity perturbation method in the S-band of microwave frequency with the blood plasma collected from normal rats (Controls) as well as chemically induced rats (Aβ). A change is observed in the dielectric properties of the Aβ samples but not the controls samples at the extended period of time. This measurement technique is simple and the collection of blood from the rats is nonsurgical in nature. These results prove a new method of diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) using microwave techniques.

Blood Plasma, Sprague-Dawley Rats, Cavity Perturbation, Alzheimer’s Disease

Lonappan, A. , Dallé, E. , Afullo, T. and Daniels, W. (2017) Analysis of Behaviour Pattern in Sprague-Dawley Rats Using Microwave Techniques. Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications, 9, 155-166. doi: 10.4236/jemaa.2017.911014.