Influence of electromagnetic polarization on the whole-body averaged SAR in children for plane-wave exposures

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Hirata, Akimasa ^a   Ito, Naoki ^a   Fujiwara, Osamu ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC POLARIZATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHODS; INCIDENT WAVES; PLANE WAVES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATES; SURFACE AREAS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; WHOLE BODIES;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; INFANT; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; TECHNIQUE;

BODY BURDEN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INFANT; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 63649097704     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/4/N02     Document Type: Article

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