A comparison of foetal SAR in three sets of pregnant female models

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2755-2767

  Dimbylow, Peter J ^a   Nagaoka, Tomoaki ^b   Xu, X George ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; BOUNDARY REPRESENTATIONS; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; FDTD CALCULATIONS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL PHANTOMS; PUBLIC EXPOSURE; REFERENCE LEVELS; RENSSELAER; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ARTICLE; BACK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY ABSORPTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; JAPAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHANTOM; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ABSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MOTHER; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE;

ABSORPTION; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHERS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREGNANCY; RADIATION PROTECTION; REFERENCE VALUES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67649888807     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/9/011     Document Type: Article

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