Thermal imaging to measure local temperature rises caused by hand-held mobile phones

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1557-1562

  Kargel, Christian ^a  

^a CARINTHIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Image Processing and Registration; Infrared Thermography; Mobile Phones; Specific Absorption Rate (SAR); Thermal Biological Effects; Thermal Imaging in Medicine

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; HEALTH RISKS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING;

INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR); THERMAL BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; THERMAL IMAGING IN MEDICINES;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 4644276023     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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