In-situ electric field and current density in Japanese male and female models for uniform magnetic field exposures

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 272-275

  Hirata, Akimasa ^a,b   Wake, Kanako ^a   Watanabe, Soichi ^a   Taki, Masao ^c  

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

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MODELS AND PHANTOMS; NERVOUS TISSUE; NORMAL HUMAN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 68349104254     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncp117     Document Type: Article

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