Analysis of the Matching Media Effects by Microwave Field Distribution Simulations for the Cylindrically Layered Human Arm Model

In this study, a method is presented to determine the matching media parameters that maximize the electromagnetic energy penetrating into the human arm modeled as a radially stratified cylinder. In this context, first, the electromagnetic scattering problem related to the layered cylindrical model in question was solved analytically using cylindrical harmonics. Then, based on this solution, a frequency-dependent functional in terms of the electromagnetic parameters of the matching medium was defined, and the parameters that minimize this functional were determined through the graphs of this functional. In this functional, which depends on the permittivity, conductivity and frequency of the matching medium, one parameter was kept constant at every turn while the other two parameters were optimized. The accuracy of the approach was demonstrated by calculating the electric field amplitudes inside and outside the layers for the parameters determined by the proposed method. The numerical results given in this context demonstrate that if a matching medium is used, the penetrating field increases between 1.3 to 13.96 times compared to the case where the matching medium is absent.