Efficient Computation of SAR Distributions from Interstitial Microwave Antenna Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 595-600

  Clibbon, Katharine L ^a   McCowen, Andrew ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADAR ANTENNAS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC AND THERMAL MODELLING; INTERSTITIAL MICROWAVE ANTENNA ARRAYS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DISTRIBUTIONS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0028419330     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.285065     Document Type: Article

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