Proportion-corrected scaled voxel models for Japanese children and their application to the numerical dosimetry of specific absorption rate for frequencies from 30 MHz to 3 GHz

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 6695-6711

  Nagaoka, Tomoaki ^a   Kunieda, Etsuo ^b   Watanabe, Soichi ^a  

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

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DEFORMATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BODY PARTS; BODY PROPORTIONS; CHILD MODELS; DEVELOPED MODELS; ELECTRIC-FIELD; FREE-FORM DEFORMATIONS; GENERAL PUBLICS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL DOSIMETRIES; PLANE WAVES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATES; VOXEL MODELS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ABSORPTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

BODY CONSTITUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; JAPAN; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION;

EID: 58149240015     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/23/004     Document Type: Article

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