Development of pregnant female, hybrid voxel-mathematical models and their application to the dosimetry of applied magnetic and electric fields at 50 Hz

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2383-2394

  Dimbylow, Peter ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

GESTATION; NAOMI; VOXELS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY DENSITY; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYBRID; IONIZING RADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PROTECTION;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PREGNANCY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 33646479953     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/10/003     Document Type: Article

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