O. Fujiwara et M. Nomura, APPROXIMATION OF SURFACE-SAR IN A REALISTIC HEAD MODEL FOR MICROWAVE EXPOSURE USING EXTERNAL MAGNETIC NEAR-FIELD, IEICE transactions on communications, E78B(2), 1995, pp. 140-144
A method is described for approximately estimating the surface specifi
c-absorption-rate (SAR) in an anatomically realistic model of the huma
n head for microwave exposure using the external magnetic near-field.
The finite-difference time-domain (FD-TD) technique is used to compute
the electromagnetic fields in the head model for 750-MHz and 1.5-GHz
far-field exposures with the 1991 ANSI specified safety level. The spa
tial pattern tracking between the one-gram averaged surface-SAR and ex
ternal magnetic near-field is demonstrated on the horizontal cross sec
tional perimeter of the head model. The regression coefficients betwee
n them are also obtained on the fifty-five horizontal cross sectional
perimeters, which could,give an approximate value of the surface-SAR i
n an acutual head, if the external magnetic near-field would be measur
ed. This is validated by the theoretical results in a semi-infinite ho
mogeneous flat model for normal incidence microwave exposure.