Dominant factors influencing whole-body average SAR due to far-field exposure in whole-body resonance frequency and GHz regions

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 484-487

  Hirata, Akimasa ^a,b   Kodera, Sachiko ^a   Wang, Jianqing ^a   Fujiwara, Osamu ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dominant factors influencing total EM power absorption in human body; Far field exposure; ICNIRP reference level; Whole body average SAR

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; IONIZING RADIATION; RADIATION PROTECTION;

DOMINANT FACTOR; DOMINANT FACTOR INFLUENCING TOTAL ELECTROMAGNETIC POWER ABSORPTION IN HUMAN BODY; ELECTROMAGNETIC POWER ABSORPTION; FAR-FIELD; FAR-FIELD EXPOSURE; FIELD EXPOSURE; HUMAN BODIES; INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON NON-IONIZING RADIATION PROTECTION; INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON NON-IONIZING RADIATION PROTECTION REFERENCE LEVEL; REFERENCE LEVELS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; WHOLE-BODY; WHOLE-BODY AVERAGE SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; IMPEDANCE; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; WHOLE BODY COUNTING; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIO WAVES; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 34547754636     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20335     Document Type: Article

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