Decibel attenuation of Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) in blood and cortical bone determined experimentally and from the theory of ohmic losses

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1030-1041

  Zborowski, MacIej ^a   Kligman, Boris ^a   Midura, Ronald J ^a   Wolfman, Alan ^a   Patterson, Thomas E ^a   Ibiwoye, Michael ^a   Grabiner, Mark ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Low frequency EMF; Magnetic diffusion; PEMF tissue absorption; Pulsed electromagnetic field; Quasistatic magnetic field; Tissue conductivity

Indexed keywords

LOW FREQUENCY EMF; MAGNETIC DIFFUSION; PULSED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD (PEMF); QUASISTATIC MAGNETIC FIELD; TISSUE CONDUCTIVITY;

ATTENUATION; BLOOD; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY;

TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; BONE; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS OF THE HEMIC, LYMPHATIC AND RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEMS; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PHYSIOLOGY; BODY BURDEN; BONE AND BONES; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 33745468588     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-006-9126-4     Document Type: Article

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