The estimation of 3D SAR distributions in the human head from mobile phone compliance testing data for epidemiological studies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5695-5706

  Wake, Kanako ^a   Varsier, Nadège ^b   Watanabe, Soichi ^a   Taki, Masao ^a,c   Wiart, Joe ^d   Mann, Simon ^e   Deltour, Isabelle ^f   Cardis, Elisabeth ^g  

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

^b Agence Nationale de la Recherche   (France)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d ORANGE LABS   (France)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^f DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

^g INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D SAR DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN TUMORS; COMPLIANCE TESTING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; HEAD MODEL; HUMAN HEAD; MEASURED DATA; REALISTIC HEAD MODELS; SAR DATA; SAR DISTRIBUTION; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; SPECIFIC LOCATION; TUMOR LOCATION;

D REGION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LOCATION; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SURFACE TESTING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; TUMORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; HEAD; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELLULAR PHONE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 70350637700     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/19/003     Document Type: Article

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