The cumulative effects of different sources on the human body

Author

Alfaqawi, M.I.M. ; Chebil, J. ; Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Gombak, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

65

Lastpage

69

Abstract

Everyday, people are dealing with different sources that produce electromagnetic field (EMF) with various frequencies, thus they become exposed to EMF radiation that might be harmful. The effect of these radiations on human body can be studied by measuring the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) which is the rate at which EM energy is absorbed by the tissues. This paper determines the maximum 1-g SAR by simulating MATLAB code using the finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD). Then it distinguishes between the effect of exposure to EM waves with single frequency and multi-band frequencies. We found that the effects on the human tissues have been increased with using multi-band frequencies.

Keywords

biological effects of fields; biological tissues; electromagnetic wave absorption; finite difference time-domain analysis; mathematics computing; medical computing; EM energy absorption; EM wave exposure; EMF radiation; FDTD; MATLAB code simulation; SAR; Specific Absorption Rate; cumulative effects; electromagnetic field; finite difference time domain method; human body; human tissues; multiband frequencies; radiation effect; single frequency; Conferences; Electromagnetics; 1-gSAR; Electromagnetic radiation; Standard absorption rate (SAR); finite-difference time-domain method FDTD; human model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics (APACE), 2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Melaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3114-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APACE.2012.6457633

Filename

6457633