State of the knowledge for electromagnetic absorbed dose in man and animals

The paper gives the EM absorbed dose for man and animals at various frequencies for the plane wave irradiation condition for different orientations of the body relative to incident fields. Also included are the results for the whole-body absorption for conditions of electrical contact with ground and in the presence of reflecting surfaces of high conductivity and multiple animals. The data are given for the ditribution of power deposition in man models for the resonance conditions of highest whole-body electromagnetic absorption. The highlights of the results obtained with proportionately scaled saline- and biological-phantom-filled models of man have been confirmed by experiments with small laboratory animals, from 25-g mice to 2250-g rabbits.