Development of realistic high-resolution whole-body voxel models of Japanese adult males and females of average height and weight, and application of models to radio-frequency electromagnetic-field dosimetry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-15

  Nagaoka, Tomoaki ^a   Watanabe, Soichi ^b   Sakurai, Kiyoko ^a   Kunieda, Etsuo ^c   Watanabe, Satoshi ^a   Taki, Masao ^d   Yamanaka, Yukio ^b  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HUMAN FORM MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

HUMAN BODY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0347093559     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/1/001     Document Type: Article

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