A study of uncertainties in modeling antenna performance and power absorption in the head of a cellular phone user

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2676-2685

  Nikita, Konstantina S ^a   Cavagnaro, Marta ^b   Bernardi, Paolo ^b   Uzunoglu, Nikolaos K ^a   Pisa, Stefano ^b   Piuzzi, Emanuele ^b   Sahalos, John N ^c   Krikelas, George I ^c   Vaul, John A ^d   Excell, Peter S ^d   Cerri, Graziano ^e   Chiarandini, Simona ^e   De Leo, Roberto ^e   Russo, Paola ^e  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological effects of electromagnetic radiation; Dosimetry; Error analysis; Fdtd methods; Hybrid numerical techniques; Land mobile radio cellular systems

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DOSIMETRY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

LAND MOBILE RADIO CELLULAR SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034427474     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.899030     Document Type: Article

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