A study of SAR estimation by shape-deformable human models in anatomy

The implications of exposure to electromagnetic waves for human health are a subject of rising concern. Numerical simulations using anatomically realistic computational human models have recently been performed for electromagnetic dosimetry simulation. However, most of these computational models are reference (average) models. In this study, we present a shape-deformable human model to which we applied volume morphing techniques to develop computational models of target persons from the existing models. We also demonstrate the frequency characteristics of the whole-body averaged specific absorption rates of shape-deformable models exposed to vertically polarized plane waves with frequencies ranging from 30 MHz to 2 GHz.