Skin heating effects of millimeter-wave irradiation-thermal modeling results

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue , 2000, Pages 2111-2120

  Nelson, D A ^a,b   Nelson, M T ^a   Walters, T J ^c   Mason, P A ^d  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Veridian Engineering   (United States)

^d Conceptual MindWorks Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILLIMETER MICROWAVES; SKIN HEATING; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; THERMAL MODELLING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; HEMODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVES; SKIN; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL DIFFUSION; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 0034314505     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.884202     Document Type: Article

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