Computation with a parallel FDTD system of human-body effect on electromagnetic absorption for portable telephones

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 53-58

  Wang, Jianqing ^a   Fujiwara, Osamu ^a   Watanabe, Soichi ^b   Yamanaka, Yukio ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Electromagnetic absorption; Human body effect; Parallel finite difference time domain (FDTD) system; Portable telephone; Specific absorption rate (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TELEPHONE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SYSTEM; HUMAN BODY EFFECT; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 1242263484     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.821232     Document Type: Article

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