Inaccuracies of a plastic "pinna" SAM for SAR testing of cellular telephones against IEEE and ICNIRP safety guidelines

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 8 II, 2004, Pages 2004-2012

  Gandhi, Om P ^a   Kang, Gang ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Accurate SAR obtained with a proposed modified SAM; Comparison of specific absorption rate (SAR) obtained for specific anthropomorphic mannequin (SAM) and anatomic models; Considerably lower SAR for SAM

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

ANATOMIC MODELS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR); SPECIFIC ANTHROPOMORPHIC MANNEQUIN (SAM);

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 4043116909     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.832689     Document Type: Article

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