Infrared thermal imaging to measure local temperature rises caused by handheld mobile phones

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1513-1519

  Kargel, Christian ^a  

^a CARINTHIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biological effects of electromagnetic radiation; Image processing and registration; Infrared imaging; Mobile phones; Specific absorption rate (SAR); Thermal imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION; MOBILE PHONES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR);

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 23344439726     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2005.851082     Document Type: Article

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