Calculation of temperature rises in the human eye exposed to em waves in the ism frequency bands

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E83-B, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 541-547

  Hirata, Akimasa ^a   Ushiq, Gou ^a   Shiozawa, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FDTD method; Human eye; ISAI frequency bands; Specific absorption rate (SAR); Temperature rise

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEALTH HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS; TEMPERATURE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY BAND; HUMAN EYE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION;

EID: 0034156809     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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