SUMMARY With the rapid progress of electronic and information technology, an expectation for the realization of body area network (BAN) by means of ultra wide band (UWB) techniques has risen. Although the signal from a single UWB device is very low, the energy absorption may increase significantly when many UWB devices are simultaneously adorned to a human body. An analysis method is therefore ...

Introduction A method to reduce the specific absorption rate (SAR) of the SSFP (Steady State Free Precession) based fast spectroscopic imaging (SI) technique spFAST [1] is presented. For spFAST the FID-like signal S1 is acquired while the echo-like signal S2 is suppressed. An optimal flip angle which depends on the relaxation times T1 and T2 and on the repetition time TR is used to maximize the...

The existing cell phone certification process uses a plastic model of the head called the Specific Anthropomorphic Mannequin (SAM), representing the top 10% of U.S. military recruits in 1989 and greatly underestimating the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) for typical mobile phone users, especially children. A superior computer simulation certification process has been approved by the Federal Comm...

In this paper, the anatomically realistic body model Zubal is exposed to a plane wave. A finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is used to obtain field data for specific-absorption-rate (SAR) computation. It is investigated how the FDTD resolution, power-loss computation method and positioning of the material voxels in the FDTD grid affect the SAR results. The results enable one to estimat...

This study analyzes the main parameters that should influence the specific absorption rate (SAR) in children's heads. The evolution of their head shape and the growth of specific parameters, such as the skull thickness, are analyzed. The influence of these parameters on the radio frequency (RF) exposure of children's head is studied. The SAR over 1 g in specific tissue is assessed in different ...

This paper presents faster Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) measurement techniques based on a previously proposed estimation method. This estimation method theoretically estimates the SAR from a 2-D scanned electric field (E-field) by basically applying the equivalence theorem and the image theory. The method reduces the SAR measurement time without sacrificing accuracy. We present the applicabil...