A UTD/FDTD investigation on procedures to assess compliance of cellular base-station antennas with human-exposure limits in a realistic urban environment

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2409-2417

  Bernardi, Paolo ^a   Cavagnaro, Marta ^a   Cicchetti, Renato ^a   Pisa, Stefano ^a   Piuzzi, Emanuele ^a   Testa, Orlandino ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beam tracing; Compliance assessment; Dosimetry; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Human exposure; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Uniform theory of diffraction (UTD)

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BEAM TRACING; HUMAN EXPOSURE; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; UNIFORM THEORY OF DIFFRACTION;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0742304086     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.819773     Document Type: Article

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