• DocumentCode
    751866
  • Title

    Large-Scale Calculation of Low-Frequency-Induced Currents in High-Resolution Human Body Models

  • Author

    Barchanski, Andreas ; Clemens, Markus ; Gjonaj, Erion ; Gersem, Herbert De ; Weiland, Thomas

  • Author_Institution
    Tech. Univ. Darmstadt
  • Volume
    43
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1693
  • Lastpage
    1696
  • Abstract
    We present large-scale computations of currents induced in the human body, arising from an external low-frequency magnetic-field source. The calculations are performed using the Ex-SPFD approach; an extension of the classical SPFD approach, that can handle arbitrarily shaped magnetic-field sources and highly conductive material inside the computational domain. In order to sufficiently resolve even small organs such as the eye, very fine spatial resolution is needed. Such fine resolution results in very large systems of equations. Problems consisting of up to 200 millions of unknowns are presented
  • Keywords
    biological effects of radiation; biomagnetism; finite difference methods; arbitrarily shaped magnetic field sources; computational domain; high-resolution human body models; large-scale calculation; low-frequency-induced currents; magnetic field source; scalar-potential finite-difference approach; Biological system modeling; Biological tissues; Brain modeling; Equations; Finite difference methods; Humans; Large-scale systems; Magnetic domains; Magnetic materials; Spatial resolution; Biological effects of electromagnetic radiation; eddy currents; finite difference methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TMAG.2006.892272
  • Filename
    4137670