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Theoretical Analysis of the Biological Thermal Effect of Millimeter Waves in Layered-Dielectric-Slabs

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The theory is presented for one method of determining the biological thermal effect of millimeter waves in microwave radiometry. It has been studied theoretically that millimeter waves propagation and absorption in a human body. The model is a plane straticulate homogeneous slab of tissues under the irradiance of normal incidence plane wave. It has been discussed by obtaining the electromagnetic field, absorbent power, specific absorption rate, temperature field and their distributions in the human trunk model. Also, the principle of thermal therapeutics of millimeter waves to cancer has been discussed preliminarily.

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  1. Department of Physics, Yantai University, Yantai, Shandong, 264005, People's Republic of China

    Y. Yan & ZX. Wang

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Yan, Y., Wang, Z. Theoretical Analysis of the Biological Thermal Effect of Millimeter Waves in Layered-Dielectric-Slabs. International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves 24, 763–772 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023352824261

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