The sar evaluation method by a combination of thermographie experiments and biological tissue-equivalent phantoms

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 1 PART 2, 2000, Pages 2094-2103

  Okano, Yoshinobu ^a   Ito, Koichi ^a   Ida, Ichirou ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain equivalent phantom; Fdtd methods; Realistic human head model; SAR; Skull equivalent phantom; Thermographie method

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TISSUE EQUIVALENT PHANTOMS; BRAIN EQUIVALENT PHANTOM; HUMAN HEAD MODELS; SKULL EQUIVALENT PHANTOM; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

BRAIN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PERMITTIVITY; POLYETHYLENES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 0034314631     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.884200     Document Type: Article

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