A study of changes to specific absorption rates in the human eye close to perfectly conducting spectacles within the radio frequency range 1.5 to 3.0 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3207-3212

  Whittow, Will G ^a,b   Edwards, Rob M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye; Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Metallic spectacles; Specific absorption rate (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VISION;

METALLIC SPECTACLES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 11144304647     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.836417     Document Type: Article

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