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The purpose of this study is to confirm the applicability of dielectric mixture equations in dielectric analysis of biological cell suspensions. Two dielectric mixture equations, the Pauly-Schwan (P-S) equation and the Hanai-Asami-Koizumi (H-A-K) equation were tested using sheep erythrocyte ghosts whose internal solution is identical with the external solution. Dielectric measurements were carried out for the ghost suspensions over a frequency range 10 kHz to 100 MHz; a single dielectric relaxation was found between 100 kHz and 10 MHz. From the dielectric relaxation, the conductivity and permittivity of the ghost interior and the capacitance of the cell membrane were calculated following the P-S and H-A-K equations. When the H-A-K equation was employed (and as expected from the property of the ghosts), the estimated internal conductivity was in good agreement with the external conductivity at volume fractions up to about 0.7. With the P-S equation, on the other hand, the same results as above were obtained but only at low volume fractions below about 0.3. In addition, the H-A-K equation provided a better simulation for the observed relaxation curves than did the P-S equation, especially at high volume fractions. It is, therefore, concluded that the H-A-K equation is applicable to a wider range of volume fraction than is the P-S equation.
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Kaneko, H., Asami, K. & Hanai, T. Dielectric analysis of sheep erythrocyte ghost. Examination of applicability of dielectric mixture equations. Colloid Polym Sci 269, 1039–1044 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00657434
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