title: Anatomically realistic reference models of pregnant women for gestation ages of 13, 18, and 26 weeks.
abstract: The safety of a human body exposed to radio-frequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMFs) has become important today. In recent times, conducting numerical dosimetry on the mother and the fetus during pregnancy has become a particularly important issue. This paper outlines the development of pregnant woman models that were adjusted to the reference values of physiological characteristics of maternal tissues in pregnant women for gestation ages of 13, 18, and 26 weeks The models are composed of voxels of 2 x 2 x 2 mm(3), and there are 56 tissue types. The basic specific absorption rate (SAR) characteristics in the pregnant woman models for whole-body exposure to RF electromagnetic fields that were calculated using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method are described here.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagaoka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D018811:Maternal Exposure; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009035:Mothers; D011247:Pregnancy; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011846:Radio Waves; D011874:Radiometry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*