Local exposure system for rats head using a figure-8 loop antenna in 1500-MHz band

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 10 PART 1, 2011, Pages 2740-2747

  Arima, Takuji ^a,b   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^c   Wake, Kanako ^a   Masuda, Hiroshi ^d   Watanabe, Soichi ^a   Taki, Masao ^e   Uno, Toru ^b  

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

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c MURATA MANUFACTURING CO LTD   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic field (EMF); local exposure; loop antenna; rat; specific absorption rate (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR PHONE; EXPOSURE SYSTEM; HUMAN HEAD; LABORATORY ANIMALS; LOCAL EXPOSURE; MICROWAVE FIELD; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TARGET TISSUES; WHOLE BODY;

ANIMALS; BAR CODES; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LOOP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MOBILE PHONES; RADAR ANTENNAS; RATS; TELEPHONE SETS; TISSUE;

ANTENNAS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EXPOSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIMULATION;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CELLULAR PHONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RATS;

EID: 79957956905     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2103942     Document Type: Article

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