Effect of a hands-free wire on specific absorption rate for a waist-mounted 1.8 GHz cellular telephone handset

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1675-1684

  Troulis, S E ^a   Scanlon, W G ^b   Evans, N E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONY;

TELEPHONE SETS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; LASER; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; BIOPHYSICS; CELLULAR PHONE; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0038497944     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/12/301     Document Type: Article

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