Effects of dielectric permittivities on skin heating due to millimeter wave exposure.docVIP

BioMedical Engineering OnLine BioMedCentral Research Open Access Effects of dielectric permittivities on skin heating due to millimeter wave exposure Akio Kanezaki1,2, Akimasa Hirata*2,3, Soichi Watanabe2 and Hiroshi Shirai1 Address: 1Chuo University, Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Communication Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, 2National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, EMC group, Tokyo, Japan and 3Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Japan Email: Akio Kanezaki - akiokanezaki@; Akimasa Hirata* - ahirata@nitech.ac.jp; Soichi Watanabe - wata@nict.go.jp; Hiroshi Shirai - shirai@ * Corresponding author Published: 23 September 2009 Received: 28 April 2009 Accepted: 23 September 2009 BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8:20 doi:10.1186/1475-925X-8-20 This article is available from: /content/8/1/20 ? 2009 Kanezaki et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Because the possibility of millimeter wave (MMW) exposure has increased, public concern about the health issues due to electromagnetic radiation has also increased. While many studies have been conducted for MMW exposure, the effect of dielectric permittivities on skin heating in multilayer/heterogeneous human- body models have not been adequately investigated. This is partly due to the fact that a detailed investigation of skin heating in a multilayer model by computational methods is difficult since many parameters are involved. In the present study, therefore, theoretical analyses were conducted to investigate the relationship between dielectric permittivities and MMW-induced skin heating in a one-dimensional three-layer model