Experimental and numerical determination of SAR distributions within culture flasks in a dielectric loaded radial transmission line

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 202208-

  Pickard, William F ^a   Straube, William L ^b   Moros, Eduardo G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture flask; Dielectric loading; Finitedifference timedomain (FDTD) specific absorption rate (SAR) modeling; Frequencydomain SAR modeling; Heat diffusion; Nonuniform SAR; Radial transmission line (RTL); Transverse electromagnetic (TEM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748173753     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.821756     Document Type: Article

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