Boundary Element Modeling of the human body when exposed to overhead power lines: Influence on conductivity variations

Author

Gonzalez, Cristina ; Peratta, Andres ; Poljak, Dragan

Author_Institution

Wessex Inst. of Technol., Southampton, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The paper deals with the human exposure assessment to extremely low frequency (ELF) electric field due to overhead power lines. The formulation is based on a realistic human body representation taking into account different conductivities for various tissues inside the body. In particular, the influence on conductivity variation to the induced current densities and electric fields is investigated. The solution is carried out via the boundary element method (BEM). Some illustrative numerical results are presented.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biological effects of fields; biological tissues; boundary-elements methods; current density; electrical conductivity; power overhead lines; BEM; ELF; biological tissue; boundary element modeling; conductivity variation; extremely low frequency electric field; human body; human exposure assessment; induced current density; overhead power line; realistic human body representation; Biological system modeling; Boundary element methods; Conductivity; Current density; Frequency; Geophysical measurement techniques; Ground penetrating radar; Humans; Laplace equations; Power overhead lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software, Telecommunications & Computer Networks, 2009. SoftCOM 2009. 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hvar

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4973-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-953-290-015-6

Type

conf

Filename

5306815