Abstract

The main objective of this research is to represent a proposed method for detecting the blood diseases non-invasively by using the bio-impedance analysis. Blood with its components is good application of bioimpedance whereas each component has specific electrical properties. These electrical properties are changed with frequency. From this point, new model representing the blood components is proposed and described by mathematical equations. In this model the blood is divided into layers of different components such as RBCs, WBCs, plasma, etc. Each layer which represents one component has thickness related to its concentration within the blood and specific electrical properties. The proposed model of blood facilitates the expression of all blood components at different bands of frequencies. Finally, the paper presents procedures for blood analysis based on the proposed model of blood and the mathematical equations.

Keywords:

Bio-impedance, mathematically, non-invasively, plasma, RBCs, WBCs,

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