Improved Heat Transfer Modeling of the Eye for Electromagnetic Wave Exposures

Author

Hirata, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nagoya Inst. of Technol.

Volume

54

Issue

5

fYear

2007

fDate

5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

959

Lastpage

961

Abstract

This study proposed an improved heat transfer model of the eye for exposure to electromagnetic (EM) waves. Particular attention was paid to the difference from the simplified heat transfer model commonly used in this field. From our computational results, the temperature elevation in the eye calculated with the simplified heat transfer model was largely influenced by the EM absorption outside the eyeball, but not when we used our improved model

Keywords

biological effects of microwaves; biothermics; eye; heat transfer; physiological models; electromagnetic wave exposures; eye; heat transfer modeling; temperature elevation; Blood; Electromagnetic heating; Electromagnetic modeling; Electromagnetic radiation; Electromagnetic scattering; Electromagnetic wave absorption; Heat transfer; Magnetic heads; Radiation safety; Temperature sensors; Electromagnetic exposures; eye safety; heat transfer model; temperature elevation; Absorption; Energy Transfer; Eye; Hot Temperature; Humans; Microwaves; Models, Biological; Models, Theoretical; Radiation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9294

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TBME.2007.893492

Filename

4154998