Computation of specific absorption rate in the human body due to base-station antennas using a hybrid formulation

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 374-381

  Abd Alhameed, Raed A ^a   Excell, Peter S ^a   Mangoud, Mohab A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Hybrid method; Specific absorption rate (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DOSIMETRY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL DOSIMETRY; HYBRID METHOD; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 20444478297     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2005.847395     Document Type: Article

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