Appropriate modeling of the ear for compliance testing of handheld MTE with SAR safety limits at 900/1800 MHz

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 1 PART 1, 2000, Pages 1927-1934

  Burkhardt, Michael ^a   Kuster, Niels ^b  

^a Regulatory Group Diax   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Compliance testing; Dosimetry; Ear modeling; Handheld mobile telecommunications equipment

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX ANATOMICAL PHANTOM; COMPLIANCE TESTING; EAR; HANDHELD MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; HEAD TISSUE; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCANNING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0034318511     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.883873     Document Type: Article

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