The SAR Effects of Popular Jewellery on the Human Head

Author

Whittow, William G. ; Panagamuwa, C.J. ; Edwards, R.M. ; Vardaxoglou, J.C.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Electr. Eng. Dept., Loughborough Univ., Loughborough

fYear

2007

fDate

11-16 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper investigates the effects of metallic jewellery on the SAR in the human head. A CW dipole is placed in front of the head to represent a mobile enabled personal data assistant. The FDTD method has been used to simulate an eyebrow ring near a homogeneous SAM phantom at 1.8 GHz. Measurements were made on the Loughborough SAM head with the DASY4 measurement system. Simulations were also made with eyebrow rings on the surface of the skin and pierced through the eyebrow of a heterogeneous anatomically realistic human head. Common sizes of eyebrow ring and eyebrow stud have been considered over the frequency range 0.6 to 4.6 GHz. Jewellery which was small compared to a wavelength had little effect on the SAR in the head.

Keywords

biological effects of microwaves; finite difference time-domain analysis; mobile handsets; DASY4 measurement system; FDTD method; Loughborough SAM head; SAM phantom; continuous wave dipole; eyebrow ring; frequency 0.6 GHz to 4.6 GHz; human head; metallic jewellery; mobile enabled personal data assistant; popular jewellery; specific absorption rate; DASY; FDTD; Metallic jewellery; SAR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2007. EuCAP 2007. The Second European Conference on

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

Print_ISBN

978-0-86341-842-6

Type

conf

Filename

4458300