Title
Quantification And Verification Of Whole-Body-Average Sars In Small Animals Exposed To Electromagnetic Fields Inside Reverberation Chamber
Abstract
This paper aims to achieve a high-quality exposure level quantification of whole-body average-specific absorption rates (WBA-SARs) for small animals in a medium-size reverberation chamber (RC). A two-step method, which incorporates the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) numerical solutions with electric field measurements in an RC-type exposure system, has been used as an evaluation method to determine the whole-body exposure level in small animals. However, there is little data that quantitatively demonstrate the validity and accuracy of this method in an RC up to now. In order to clarify the validity of the two-step method, we compare the physical quantities in terms of electric field strength and WBA-SARs by using a direct numerical assessment method known as the method of moments (MoM) with ten homogenous gel phantoms placed in an RC with 2 GHz exposure. The comparison results show that the relative errors between the two-step method and the MoM approach are approximately below 10%, which reveals the validity and usefulness of the two-step technique. Finally, we perform a dosimetric analysis of the WBA-SARs for anatomical mouse models with the two-step method and determine the input power related to our developed RC-exposure system to achieve a target exposure level in small animals
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1587/transcom.E97.B.2184
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
specific absorption rate (SAR), reverberation-chamber (RC), exposure system, finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, method of moments (MoM)
Electromagnetic reverberation chamber,Computer science,Acoustics,Electromagnetic field,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E97B
10
0916-8516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.63
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jingjing Shi111.64
Jerdvisanop Chakarothai212.65
Jianqing Wang38525.57
Kanako Wake424.97
Soichi Watanabe51315.03
fujiwara655.23