Characteristics of biological tissue equivalent phantoms applied to UWB communications

Electronics and Communications in Japan, Part I: Communications (English translation of Denshi Tsushin Gakkai Ronbunshi)

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 48-55

  Takimoto, Takuya ^a   Onishi, Teruo ^a,b   Saito, Kazuyuki ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Uebayashi, Shinji ^b   Ito, Koichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT DOCOMO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Broadband; FD TD method; Local SAR; Tissue equivalent phantom; UWB

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANTENNA INPUT IMPEDANCE; ELECTRICAL CONSTANT; FREQUENCY DOMAIN TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR); ULTRA WIDEBAND (UWB) COMMUNICATIONS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 33847290349     PISSN: 87566621     EISSN: 15206424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecja.20300     Document Type: Article

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