Conservative estimation of whole-body-averaged SARs in infants with a homogeneous and simple-shaped phantom in the GHz region

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 7215-7223

  Hirata, Akimasa ^a   Ito, Naoki ^a   Fujiwara, Osamu ^a   Nagaoka, Tomoaki ^b   Watanabe, Soichi ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; FREQUENCY BANDS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

BODY SHAPES; ELLIPSOIDAL MODELS; ELLIPSOIDALS; FIELD EXPOSURES; INCIDENT WAVES; MUSCLE TISSUES; PROJECTED AREAS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATES; SURFACE AREAS; WIDE FREQUENCY BANDS;

MUSCLE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; JAPANESE; KAUP INDEX; MUSCLE TISSUE; OBESITY; PHANTOM; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; SURFACE PROPERTY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; INFANT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 58149248067     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/24/014     Document Type: Article

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