title: Intercomparison of whole-body averaged SAR in European and Japanese voxel phantoms.
abstract: This paper provides an intercomparison of the HPA male and female models, NORMAN and NAOMI with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) male and female models, TARO and HANAKO. The calculations of the whole-body SAR in these four phantoms were performed at the HPA, at NICT and at the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NIT). These were for a plane wave with a vertically aligned electric field incident upon the front of the body from 30 MHz to 3 GHz for isolated conditions. As well as investigating the general differences through this frequency range, particular emphasis was placed on the assumptions of how dielectric properties are assigned to tissues (particularly skin and fat) and the consequence of using different algorithms for calculating SAR at the higher frequencies.
authors.affiliation: Radiation Protection Division, Health Protection Agency, Chilton, Didcot, UK. peter.dimbylow@hpa.org.uk
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Dimbylow
authors.forename: Akimasa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hirata
authors.forename: Tomoaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagaoka
mesh_terms: D001822:Body Burden; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005060:Europe; D007564:Japan; D008954:Models, Biological; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D012062:Relative Biological Effectiveness; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012984:Software; D012986:Software Validation; D014915:Whole-Body Counting / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards