Characterization of absorption loss for UWB body tissue propagation model

Proceedings - MICC 2009: 2009 IEEE 9th Malaysia International Conference on Communications with a Special Workshop on Digital TV Contents

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 254-258

  Yusoff, N I M ^a   Khatun, S ^a   Alshehri, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Body tissue propagation model; Finite integration technique (FIT); Heterogeneous normal and tumour affected tissue models; Specific absorption rate (SAR); Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BODY TISSUES; FINITE INTEGRATION TECHNIQUE; PROPAGATION MODELS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TISSUE MODELS;

ABSORPTION; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DIGITAL TELEVISION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; TUMORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 77952224208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICC.2009.5431507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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