Reducing the staircasing error in computational dosimetry of low-frequency electromagnetic fields

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Laakso, Ilkka ^a   Hirata, Akimasa ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL DOSIMETRY; CURVED BOUNDARY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN HEAD MODEL; INDUCED ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; NUMERICAL ERRORS; STAIRCASE APPROXIMATION; STAIRCASE GRIDS; VOXEL MODELS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; SPHERES; STAIRS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 84856832075     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/4/N25     Document Type: Article

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