Radiat Prot Dosimetry
May 2023
The paper deals with the determination of the absorbed power density (Sab) in a planar multilayer model of a tissue exposed to the radiation of a dipole antenna, based on the analytical/numerical approach. A derivation of Sab from the differential form of Poynting theorem is presented. The two-layer and three-layer tissue models are used.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this paper, the analysis of exposure reference levels is performed for the case of a half-wavelength dipole antenna positioned in the immediate vicinity of non-planar body parts. The incident power density (IPD) spatially averaged over the spherical and cylindrical surface is computed at the 6-90 GHz range, and subsequently placed in the context of the current international guidelines and standards for limiting exposure to electromagnetic (EM) fields which are defined considering planar computational tissue models. As numerical errors are ubiquitous at such high frequencies, the spatial resolution of EM models needs to be increased which in turn results in increased computational complexity and memory requirements.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To facilitate the development of a COVID-19 predictive model in Croatia by analyzing three different methodological approaches.
Method: We used the historical data to explore the fit of the extended SEIRD compartmental model, the Heidler function, an exponential approximation in analyzing electromagnetic phenomena related to lightning strikes, and the Holt-Winters smoothing (HWS) for short-term epidemic predictions. We also compared various methods for the estimation of R0.
Goal: The aim of this paper is to provide a rigorous model and, hence, a more accurate description of the transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) induced fields and currents, respectively, by taking into account the inductive and capacitive effects, as well as the propagation effects, often being neglected when using quasi-static approximation.
Methods: The formulation is based on the surface integral equation (SIE) approach. The model of a lossy homogeneous brain has been derived from the equivalence theorem and using the appropriate boundary conditions for the electric field.