Computational modeling of temperature elevation and thermoregulatory response in the brains of anesthetized rats locally exposed at 1.5 GHz

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 7639-7657

  Hirata, Akimasa ^a   Masuda, Hiroshi ^b   Kanai, Yuya ^a   Asai, Ryuichi ^a   Fujiwara, Osamu ^a   Arima, Takuji ^c   Kawai, Hiroki ^c   Watanabe, Soichi ^c   Lagroye, Isabelle ^b   Veyret, Bernard ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW RATE; COMPUTATIONAL CODES; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CORE TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC POWER ABSORPTION; EXPOSURE CONDITIONS; HUMAN EXPOSURES; LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS; RESEARCH AGENDA; SAFETY GUIDELINES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TEMPERATURE ELEVATION; THERMAL THERAPIES; THERMOREGULATORY RESPONSE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BLOOD; CODES (SYMBOLS); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; HEMODYNAMICS; RATS;

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS;

AGING; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION; VASCULARIZATION;

AGING; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 81355154088     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/23/019     Document Type: Article

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