Evaluation of human absorption in near field of a BTS antenna

Author

Bernard, Paolo ; Cavagnaro, Marta ; Cristoforetti, Luca ; Mazzurana, Mirco ; Pisa, Stefano ; Piuzzi, Emanuele ; Pontalti, Rolando ; Sandrin, Luca

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Rome Univ., Italy

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

6-11 June 2004

Firstpage

1449

Abstract

This work focuses on the evaluation of power absorption in a human body exposed to the near field of BTS antennas. A parallel implementation of the FDTD method has been used to accommodate antenna and body models in the same lattice. The antenna model has been obtained by direct inspection of an actual BTS antenna and has been validated both by field measurements and simulations. Two different body models have been used: the Visible Human, that is a segmented model, and one obtained without tissues segmentation. Results are compared with ICNIRP guideline and with the European standard concerning the put-into-market of commercial antennas.

Keywords

antennas; biological effects of fields; dosimetry; finite difference time-domain analysis; mobile communication; modelling; transceivers; BTS antenna inspection; BTS antenna near field; European standard; FDTD implementation; ICNIRP guideline; Visible Human; antenna model; antenna validation; body model; commercial antennas; dosimetry; field measurement; human absorption evaluation; human exposure; lattice; mobile communications; power absorption evaluation; tissues segmentation; Absorption; Antenna measurements; Biological system modeling; Dipole antennas; Finite difference methods; Guidelines; Humans; Inspection; Reflector antennas; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2004 IEEE MTT-S International

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8331-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2004.1338845

Filename

1338845