Whole-body-averaged SAR from 50 MHz to 4 GHz in the University of Florida child voxel phantoms

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 6639-6649

  Dimbylow, Peter ^a   Bolch, Wesley ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT MONITORING;

PUBLIC EXPOSURE; SPECIFIC ENERGY ABSORPTION RATE (SAR);

RADIATION PROTECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PHANTOM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PHYSICS; SCHOOL CHILD;

ABSORPTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 35848944894     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/22/006     Document Type: Article

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