Investigation into the Accuracy, Efficiency and Applicability of the Method of Moments as Numerical Dosimetry Tool for the Head and Hand of a Mobile Phone User

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Newsletter

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 114-125

  Meyer, F J C ^a   Palmer, K D ^b   Jakobus, U ^c  

^a EM Software and Systems SA Pty Ltd   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIATION DAMAGE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GENERIC MOBILE PHONES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATES (SAR);

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0035388230     PISSN: 10569170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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