General material models for electromagnetic field-tissue interaction

Author

Benson, T.M. ; Christopoulos, C. ; Thomas, D.W.P. ; Paul, J. ; Greedy, S. ; Sewell, P. ; McKirdy, D. ; Vukovic, A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nottingham Univ., UK

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

28-30 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

141

Abstract

There has been significant interest in recent years on the interaction of electromagnetic fields with biological tissues for health, diagnostic and therapeutic reasons and also the optimum design of antennas in close proximity to the body such as those found in mobile phones. It is therefore necessary to devise suitable broadband models of the dielectric properties of biological materials which may be used in time domain simulations for analysis and design purposes. This paper details model parameter values for biological tissues and shows typical simulation results for a human head in the vicinity of a radiating half-wave dipole.

Keywords

biological tissues; dielectric materials; electromagnetic fields; time-domain analysis; antennas; biological materials; biological tissues; dielectric properties; electromagnetic field-tissue interaction; mobile phones; radiating half-wave dipole; time domain simulations; Analytical models; Biological materials; Biological system modeling; Biological tissues; Dielectrics; Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic modeling; Mobile antennas; Mobile handsets; Time domain analysis; Frequency dependent dielectric materials; Time-domain electromagnetics; Transmission-line modelling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services, 2005. 7th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9164-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TELSKS.2005.1572081

Filename

1572081