Title :
A comparative study of the biological effects of various mobile phone and wireless LAN antennas
Author :
Yioultsis, T.V. ; Kosmanis, T.I. ; Kosmidou, E.P. ; Zygiridis, T.T. ; Kantartzis, N.V. ; Xenos, T.D. ; Tsiboukis, T.D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Aristotle Univ., Thessaloniki, Greece
fDate :
3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper presents a comprehensive electromagnetic and thermal analysis of radiation and its impact on human beings, due to the use of various types of commonly used mobile phones and communication antennas. This is one of the first studies that deals with a wide-range comparative investigation of modern cell phones, unlike the majority of existing work, which do not extend beyond the obsolete generic phone case. The rather severe, although overlooked, case of wireless local area network antennas is also considered, due to their increasing use and the large times of exposure associated with them
Keywords :
biological effects of radiation; cellular radio; finite difference time-domain analysis; mobile antennas; wireless LAN; FDTD model; biological effects; cell phone; communication system; electromagnetic radiation; human body; mobile phone antenna; numerical method; thermal analysis; wireless LAN antenna; Biological system modeling; Cellular phones; Computational modeling; Electromagnetic radiation; Finite difference methods; Helical antennas; Humans; Mobile antennas; Mobile handsets; Wireless LAN;
Journal_Title :
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on