Comparisons of Computed Mobile Phone Induced SAR in the SAM Phantom to That in Anatomically Correct Models of the Human Head
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: The specific absorption rates (SAR) determined computationally in the specific anthropomorphic mannequin (SAM) and anatomically correct models of the human head when exposed to a mobile phone model are compared as part of a study organized by IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 34, SubCommittee 2, and Working Group 2, and carried out by an international task force comprising 14 government, academic, and industrial research institutions. The detailed study protocol defined the computational head and mobile phone models. The participants used different finite-difference time-domain software and independently positioned the mobile phone and head models in accordance with the protocol. The results show that when the pinna SAR is calculated separately from the head SAR, SAM produced a higher SAR in the head than the anatomically correct head models. Also the larger (adult) head produced a statistically significant higher peak SAR for both the 1- and 10-g averages than did the smaller (child) head for all conditions of frequency and position.
Institutions: United States Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, NTT (Japan), NTT DOCOMO, Inc. (Japan), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Motorola (United States), Orange (France), Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Utrecht University, Ericsson (Sweden), Nokia (Finland), University of Victoria, Institute for Mobile and Satellite Communication Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Biophysics
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G3050811832
OpenAlex ID: W2170231032