Title :
FDTD calculation of organ resonance characteristics in an anatomically based human model for plane-wave exposure
Author :
Jianqing Wang ; Mukaide, N. ; Fujiwara, Osamu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
It is well known that electromagnetic (EM) energy is absorbed inhomogeneously in the human body even for plane-wave exposure. This implies that local resonance for various individual organs may occur. In order to investigate this implication, we analyzed numerically the organ resonance characteristics in the frequency range from 30 MHz up to 3 GHz with an anatomically based high-precision human body model and a parallel finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique. As a result, we found that the whole-body resonance occurring around 65 MHz causes the local resonance for all the organs at the same frequency. Local resonance peculiar to each of organs was also found to occur around 900 GHz for the brain, eyes and heart, 600 MHz for the testicles, and so on.
Keywords :
biological effects of radiation; brain; cardiology; electromagnetic wave absorption; eye; finite difference time-domain analysis; resonance; 30 MHz to 3 GHz; 600 GHz; 900 GHz; EM energy; FDTD calculation; anatomically based human model; brain; electromagnetic energy; eyes; heart; inhomogeneous absorption; organ resonance characteristics; parallel finite-difference time-domain technique; plane-wave exposure; testicles; whole-body resonance; Biological system modeling; Electromagnetic modeling; Eyes; Finite difference methods; Humans; Magnetic field measurement; Message passing; Radio frequency; Resonance; Time domain analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Environmental Electromagnetics, 2003. CEEM 2003. Proceedings. Asia-Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou, China
Print_ISBN :
7-5635-0802-3
DOI :
10.1109/CEEM.2003.238647