An anatomically realistic whole-body pregnant-woman model and specific absorption rates for pregnant-woman exposure to electromagnetic plane waves from 10 MHz to 2 GHz

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 6731-6745

  Nagaoka, Tomoaki ^a   Togashi, Toshihiro ^b   Saito, Kazuyuki ^b   Takahashi, Masaharu ^b   Ito, Koichi ^b   Watanabe, Soichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BANDWIDTH; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; TISSUE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PLANE WAVES; VOXEL MODELS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PREGNANCY; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 35848951399     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/22/012     Document Type: Article

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