Computation of electromagnetic field inside a tissue at mobile communications frequencies

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 178-186

  Emili, Gianluca ^a   Schiavoni, Andrea ^b   Francavilla, Mauro ^b   Roselli, Luca ^a   Sorrentino, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b TELECOM ITALIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Floquet; Global system for mobile communications (GSM); Hodgkin Huxley (HH) model; Lumped element finite difference time domain (LE FDTD); Quasi static finite difference time domain (FDTD)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FLOQUET THEOREM; HODGIN-HUXLEY MODEL; LUMPE ELEMENT FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN; MOBILE COMMUNICATION FREQUENCIES; QUASI STATIC FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0037247589     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2002.806899     Document Type: Article

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