Variations in calculated SAR with distance to the perfectly matched layer boundary for a human voxel model

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Findlay, R P ^a   Dimbylow, P J ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ENERGY ABSORPTION RATE (SAR); HUMAN VOXEL MODELS; NUMERICAL PHANTOMS; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FIELD EMISSION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME PERCEPTION; WHOLE BODY AUTORADIOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 33846890679     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/23/N02     Document Type: Article

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