Dependence of the occupational exposure to mobile phone base stations on the properties of the antenna and the human body

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 227-235

  Gosselin, Marie Christine ^a   Christ, Andreas ^a   Kühn, Sven ^a,b   Kuster, Niels ^a,b  

^a FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOCIETY IT IS   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anatomical models; Base station antennas; Electromagnetic fields safety limits; Occupational exposure; Specific absorption rate (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL MODELS; BASE STATION ANTENNAS; COLLINEAR ARRAY ANTENNAS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN EXPOSURES; MESH RESOLUTION; MOBILE PHONE BASE STATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTPUT POWER; SPATIAL AVERAGE; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR); WHOLE-BODY;

ABSORPTION; BASE STATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; MOBILE PHONES; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; SIMULATORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 67349192657     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2009.2013717     Document Type: Article

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