Simple modeling of an abdomen of pregnant women and its application to SAR estimation

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E89-B, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3401-3410

  Kawai, Hiroki ^a,e   Ito, Koichi ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Saito, Kazuyuki ^a   Ueda, Takuya ^a,f   Saito, Masayoshi ^a   Ito, Hisao ^a   Osada, Hisao ^b,g   Koyanagi, Yoshio ^a,c   Ogawa, Koichi ^a,d  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Panasonic Corporation   (Japan)

^d PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^g JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid; FDTD method; Fetus; Pregnant women; SAR

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HELICAL ANTENNAS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIO SYSTEMS;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD); RADIO TERMINALS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR);

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 33845593926     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.12.3401     Document Type: Article

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