Whole-body new-born and young rats' exposure assessment in a reverberating chamber operating at 2.4 GHz

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1619-1630

  Wu, Tongning ^a,b,c   Hadjem, Abdelhamid ^a   Wong, Man Fai ^a   Gati, Azzedine ^a   Picon, Odile ^b   Wiart, Joe ^a  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^c Ministry of Industry and Information Technology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD STRENGTH; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE IN TIME DOMAINS; HYBRID APPROACH; INCIDENT POWER; PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REVERBERATING CHAMBER; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; WHOLE-BODY; WORKING VOLUME;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

RATS;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; WHOLE BODY COUNTING; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY BURDEN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIO WAVES; RATS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 77749341105     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/6/006     Document Type: Article

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