Realistically tilted and truncated anatomically based models of the human head for dosimetry of mobile telephones

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-61

  Lazzi, Gianluca ^a   Gandhi, Om P ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEALTH RISKS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING; HUMAN HEAD MODELS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION;

EID: 0031077845     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/15.554695     Document Type: Article

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