The relationship between specific absorption rate and temperature elevation in anatomically based human body models for plane wave exposure from 30 MHz to 6 GHz

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 903-921

  Hirata, Akimasa ^a   Laakso, Ilkka ^a   Oizumi, Takuya ^a   Hanatani, Ryuto ^a   Chan, Kwok Hung ^a   Wiart, Joe ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC RESTRICTIONS; BODY SURFACE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CORE TEMPERATURE; FREQUENCY INDEPENDENT; HUMAN BODY MODELS; HUMAN MODEL; IEEE STANDARDS; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; PLANE WAVE; POWER ABSORPTION; POWER DENSITIES; REFERENCE LEVELS; SAFETY GUIDELINES; SKIN TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL AVERAGE; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TEMPERATURE ELEVATION; THERMOREGULATORY RESPONSE; UPPER BOUNDARY; WHOLE-BODY;

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ABSORPTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ABSORPTION; ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREGNANCY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873694599     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/4/903     Document Type: Article

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