Electromagnetic and thermal analysis for lipid bilayer membranes exposed to RF fields

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1013-1021

  Eibert, Thomas F ^a,b   Alaydrus, Mudrik ^a   Wilczewski, Friedbert ^b   Hansen, Volkert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioelectric phenomena; Electromagnetic fields; Lipid bilayer membrane; Numerical analysis; Pulsed radio fields; Thermal analysis; Wireless communication systems

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIPIDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THERMOANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; HEAT CONDUCTION EQUATION; LIPID BILAYER MEMBRANES; PULSED RADIO FREQUENCY FIELDS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FLOWMETER; LIPID BILAYER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEAT; LIPID BILAYERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0032766882     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.775412     Document Type: Article

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