The relationship of temperature rise to specific absorption rate and current in the human leg for exposure to electromagnetic radiation in the high frequency band

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 3143-3155

  Wainwright, Peter R ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; HEAT LOSSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; TISSUE;

SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR);

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; HEATING; HYPERTHERMIA; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION; TIME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

BODY BURDEN; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LEG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIO WAVES; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0141997860     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/19/004     Document Type: Article

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