Electromagnetic dosimetry issues related to human exposure from body area networks devices

2008 1st International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, ISABEL 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Simunic, Dina ^a   Djurek, Marijan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Body area network; Electromagnetic dosimetry; Human exposure; Specific absorption rate

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY AREA NETWORKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY; EXTERNAL ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN BEING; HUMAN EXPOSURE; HUMAN EXPOSURES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; WIRELESS DEVICES;

ABSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 67650098657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISABEL.2008.4712616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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