Computations of SAR distributions for two anatomically based models of the human head using CAD files of commercial telephones and the parallelized FDTD code

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 829-833

  Tinniswood, Adam D ^a   Furse, Cynthia M ^a   Gandhi, Om P ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEALTH CARE; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

HEAD MODELS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

RADIO TELEPHONE;

EID: 0032094690     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.686769     Document Type: Article

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