TY - JOUR

T1 - Numerical Dosimetric Assessment using the FDTD Method

AU - Manteuffel, D.

AU - Gustrau, F.

AU - Simon, W.

PY - 2003

Y1 - 2003

N2 - Different European and international standards (e.g. ICNIRP guidelines, ANSI C95.1 standard, European Council Recommendation) define basic restrictions and reference levels for human safety in electromagnetic fields. In order to check compliance between electronic equipment and basic restrictions in human safety standards additional standards exist that specify more detailed requirements for the testing. Most of these standards are based on measurements, e.g. the European standard EN 50361 for safety of mobile phones. However there is a growing number of standards that specify requirements for numerical methods, e.g. the European standard EN 50357 for devices used in radio-frequency identification, electronic article surveillance and similar applications. This paper lists today's possibilities and limitations in numerical dosimetric assessment by showing a variety of applications. Since numerical dosimetric assessment can be used is a very early stage of development the examples are not limited to strict compliance testing but also to get a better insight in physical phenomena such as coupling mechanisms between the electronic device and the user. Special attention is given to the validation of the software and the phantom models of the human body and the influence on the results.

AB - Different European and international standards (e.g. ICNIRP guidelines, ANSI C95.1 standard, European Council Recommendation) define basic restrictions and reference levels for human safety in electromagnetic fields. In order to check compliance between electronic equipment and basic restrictions in human safety standards additional standards exist that specify more detailed requirements for the testing. Most of these standards are based on measurements, e.g. the European standard EN 50361 for safety of mobile phones. However there is a growing number of standards that specify requirements for numerical methods, e.g. the European standard EN 50357 for devices used in radio-frequency identification, electronic article surveillance and similar applications. This paper lists today's possibilities and limitations in numerical dosimetric assessment by showing a variety of applications. Since numerical dosimetric assessment can be used is a very early stage of development the examples are not limited to strict compliance testing but also to get a better insight in physical phenomena such as coupling mechanisms between the electronic device and the user. Special attention is given to the validation of the software and the phantom models of the human body and the influence on the results.

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M3 - Conference article

AN - SCOPUS:0141533133

SP - 237

EP - 240

JO - ITG-Fachbericht

JF - ITG-Fachbericht

SN - 0932-6022

IS - 178

T2 - INICA 2003: International ITG-Conference on Antennas

Y2 - 17 September 2003 through 19 September 2003

ER -