Calculation of the SAR induced in head tissues using a high-order DGTD method and triangulated geometrical models

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4669-4678

  Fahs, Hassan ^a   Hadjem, Abdelhamid ^c   Lanteri, Stéphane ^b   Wiart, Joe ^c   Wong, Man Fai ^d  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c ORANGE LABS   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin; finite element; numerical dosimetry; time domain Maxwell's equations; unstructured meshes

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN; FINITE ELEMENT; NUMERICAL DOSIMETRY; TIME DOMAIN; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; GEOMETRY; HISTOLOGY; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 82455189789     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2165471     Document Type: Article

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