Personal distributed exposimeter for radio frequency exposure assessment in real environments

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 563-567

  Thielens, Arno ^a   De Clercq, Hans ^b   Agneessens, Sam ^a   Lecoutere, Jeroen ^b   Verloock, Leen ^a   Declercq, Frederick ^a   Vermeeren, Günter ^a   Tanghe, Emmeric ^a   Rogier, Hendrik ^a   Puers, Robert ^b   Martens, Luc ^a   Joseph, Wout ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; PIFA; Radio frequency exposure; Textile antennas; Wearable electronics

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; TEXTILES; WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; PIFA; POWER DENSITIES; RADIO FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; RADIO-FREQUENCY EXPOSURE; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; TEXTILE ANTENNAS;

RADIO WAVES;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOSIMETRY; ENVIRONMENT; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PIFA; RADIO FREQUENCY EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RADIOMETRY; TEXTILE ANTENNAS; WEARABLE ELECTRONICS;

DOSIMETRY; PIFA; RADIO FREQUENCY EXPOSURE; TEXTILE ANTENNAS; WEARABLE ELECTRONICS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 84890856505     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.21793     Document Type: Article

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