An Analysis of Dose in Tissue Irradiated by Near Field of a Circular Loop Antenna (Special Issue on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields)

概要

論文の詳細を見る
This paper presents an analysis of the dose rate in tissue irradiated by an electromagnetic near field of a circular loop antenna. An analytical model comprised of a circular loop antenna located in the vicinity of the semi-infinite plane of a homogeneous biological medium was formulated. A quasi-static hypothesis was not introduced. The theoretical formulation was rigorously developed based on Maxwell equations which used an electric vector potential, cylindrical coordinates and a Hankel transform. The internal electric field E and the specific absorption rate (SAR) were adopted as indices for the dose in the tissue. This formulation was applied to the dosimetry of a high-frequency therapeutic device (HFTD) and experiment of irradiation to a frog web. The frequency of the applied electromagnetic fields (EMF) was 9-10 MHz. The distance between the antenna and tissue was 2.0-3.2 mm. The dose of HFTD were .75 V/m and 0.35 mW/kg, respectively. The dose of experiment of the irradiation to a frog web were 0.42-2.08 V/m and .11-2.69 mW/kg, respectively. The SAR values obtained by this analysis were small enough to conclude that the effects were non-thermal. The calculated SARs of these experiments were compared with estimated SARs in experiments on calcium efflux change due to a weak modulated RF field. All were found to be of the same order of magnitude.
社団法人電子情報通信学会の論文
1994-06-25