FDTD analysis of electromagnetic interaction between portable telephone and human head

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E79-C, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1300-1306

  Takit, Masao ^a   Watanabe, So Ichi ^b   Nojima, Toshio ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological effect; Cellular telephone; Fdtd method; Near field exposure; Specific absorption rate

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HUMAN FORM MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL EFFECT; NEAR FIELD EXPOSURE; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 0030263431     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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