NUMERICAL APPROACH BASED ON THE MOMENT METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY DEPOSITION IN LIVING TISSUES

A modified version of the moment method is proposed, which was develop ed for the computation of electromagnetic energy distributions inside living tissues of bodies irradiated by incident fields. The approach i s based on the assumption that the body under test partially differs f rom a known standard model. The numerical computation is developed onl y for the body parts that exhibit physical and geometrical differences . This can be very useful in several cases, for example when many part ially different scatterers have to be analysed, or when a scatterer ma y assume different spatial positions while part of the scatterer keeps unchanged. The proposed method is described and some preliminary nume rical results are reported.