High-resolution organ dosimetry for human exposure to low-frequency electric fields

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 366-373

  Dawson, Trevor W ^a,b   Caputa, Kris ^b   Stuchly, Maria A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological organs; Conductivity; Electric field effects; Electromagnetic analysis; Electromagnetic induction; FDTD methods; Finite difference methods; Frequency domain analysis; Power transmission biological effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747390055     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.660903     Document Type: Article

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