FDTD calculation of whole-body average SAR in adult and child models for frequencies from 30 MHz to 3 GHz

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4119-4127

  Wang, Jianqing ^a   Fujiwara, Osamu ^a   Kodera, Sachiko ^a   Watanabe, Soichi ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION RATE; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF); SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR);

ABSORPTION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN; HUMAN; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPACE; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIO WAVES; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 33747588554     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/17/001     Document Type: Article

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