The relation between the specific absorption rate and electromagnetic field intensity for heterogeneous exposure conditions at mobile communications frequencies

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 651-662

  Neubauer, Georg ^a   Preiner, Patrick ^a   Cecil, Stefan ^a   Mitrevski, Niki ^a   Gonter, Johannes ^a   Garn, Heinrich ^a  

^a ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Basic restrictions; Heterogeneous field exposure; Multipath exposure; Reference levels; SAR

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; ELASTIC WAVES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BASIC RESTRICTIONS; FIELD EXPOSURE; HETEROGENEOUS FIELD EXPOSURE; MULTIPATH; MULTIPATH EXPOSURE; PHANTOMS; PLANE WAVE; REFERENCE LEVELS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; WAVE EXPOSURE;

PHANTOMS;

EID: 73249116162     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20519     Document Type: Article

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