Characterization of the electromagnetic near-field absorption in layered biological tissue in the frequency range from 30 MHz to 6000 MHz

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4951-4965

  Christ, A ^a,b   Samaras, T ^c   Klingenbock A ^a   Kuster, N ^a,b  

^a FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOCIETY IT IS   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOGENEOUS LIQUIDS; HOMOGENEOUS TISSUE; LAYERED BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; WIRELESS DEVICES;

DOSIMETERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOBILE COMPUTING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERMITTIVITY; STANDARDS;

TISSUE CULTURE;

ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY SIZE; DIPOLE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

ABSORPTION; BODY BURDEN; CELLULAR PHONE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIO WAVES; RADIOMETRY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33748947847     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/19/014     Document Type: Article

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