Title :
Modeling EM thermal effects on visible human by a numerical hybrid method
Author :
Yinghua, Lu ; Zhen, Gong ; Peng, Lu ; Yinhua, Chui
Author_Institution :
Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., China
Abstract :
Virtually every citizen is exposed to the electromagnetic fields associated with mobile phones and base stations, radio waves, computers in offices, electrical power lines, and so on. The question is raised as to possible risks and effects of electromagnetic fields. There are possible health risks associated with mobile telecommunication systems. For ordinary discussion on the limit SAR values, people do not consider the irregular absorption of die different parts inside a human body. The database of the virtual Chinese human (VCH) gives the whole blood vessels of the sample human body, which makes it possible to implement the modeling of the EM heating effect exactly and dynamically. A hybrid method is used, in which the EM heating effects inside a human body can be determined by using FDTD numerical method, the numerical model of the heat adjusting system can be set up with theoretical analysis, the flow of the blood can be modeled by the finite element method, and the heat adjusting system of the body can be set up by theoretical and finite difference methods. Finally, the algorithm for implementing the dynamic numerical model of EM heating effects based on the Visible Human Project (VHP) is given.
Keywords :
biological effects of fields; biological effects of microwaves; finite difference time-domain analysis; finite element analysis; health hazards; mobile handsets; mobile radio; radiofrequency heating; EM heating effect modeling; EM thermal effects modeling; FDTD numerical method; Virtual Chinese Human database; Visible Human Project; blood flow model; blood vessels; electromagnetic field effects; electromagnetic field exposure; finite element method; health risks; heat adjusting system numerical model; human body; irregular absorption; limit SAR values; mobile base stations; mobile phone; mobile telecommunication systems; numerical hybrid method; office computer; radio waves; specific absorption rate; visible human; Base stations; Biological system modeling; Electromagnetic fields; Finite difference methods; Heating; Humans; Mobile handsets; Numerical models; Specific absorption rate; Telecommunication computing;
Conference_Titel :
Radio Science Conference, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 Asia-Pacific
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8404-0
DOI :
10.1109/APRASC.2004.1422546