Assessment of the computational uncertainty of temperature rise and SAR in the eyes and brain under far-field exposure from 1 to 10 GHz

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3393-3404

  Laakso, Ilkka ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-HEAT EQUATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL ACCURACY; COMPUTATIONAL ERROR; COMPUTATIONAL UNCERTAINTIES; FAR-FIELD; FEMALE VOXEL MODEL; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; FREQUENCY RANGES; GRID RESOLUTION; MULTIGRID METHODS; PLANE WAVE; POWER ABSORPTION; POWER DENSITIES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TEMPERATURE RISE;

ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WAVE POWER;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; EXPOSURE; EYE; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TEMPERATURE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 69249226165     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/11/008     Document Type: Article

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