Development of anatomically realistic whole-body models of children and their use in electromagnetic dosimetry

2008 Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference, CIBEC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nagaoka, T ^a   Watanabe, S ^a  

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

Author keywords

Children; Electromagnetic dosimetry; FDTD method; Specific absorption rate

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTRON OPTICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

CHILDREN; ELECTROMAGNETIC DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATIONS; FDTD METHOD; HEALTH OF CHILDREN; HEALTH PROFESSIONALS; HUMAN MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; VHF/UHF; WHOLE BODIES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES; YOUNG CHILDREN;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 63649163326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIBEC.2008.4786110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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