Currents Induced in an Anatomically Based Model of a Human for Exposure to Vertically Polarized Electromagnetic Pulses

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 31-39

  Chen, Jin Yuan ^a   Gandhi, Om P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

ANATOMICALLY BASED INHOMOGENEOUS MODEL; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) TECHNIQUE; HUMAN BODY MODELLING; INTERNAL FIELDS CALCULATION; VERTICALLY POLARIZED ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0025722404     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.64602     Document Type: Article

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