Dosimetry in Japanese male and female models for a low-frequency electric field

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Hirata, Akimasa ^a   Fujiwara, Osamu ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

CENTRAL NERVE TISSUES; JAPANESE MODELS;

DOSIMETRY;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DENSITY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 34547126899     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/15/N03     Document Type: Article

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