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Human Exposure Assessment to Wearable Antennas: Effect of Position and Interindividual Anatomical Variability
(1) Background: This work aims to assess the human exposure to the RF-EMFs emitted by a wearable antenna. (2) Methods: a wearable antenna tuned at f = 2.45 GHz was tested by placing it in six realistic configurations relative to a male and female human model. The exposure assessment was performed by...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9140696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35627414 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19105877 |
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author | Gallucci, Silvia Bonato, Marta Chiaramello, Emma Fiocchi, Serena Tognola, Gabriella Parazzini, Marta |
author_facet | Gallucci, Silvia Bonato, Marta Chiaramello, Emma Fiocchi, Serena Tognola, Gabriella Parazzini, Marta |
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description | (1) Background: This work aims to assess the human exposure to the RF-EMFs emitted by a wearable antenna. (2) Methods: a wearable antenna tuned at f = 2.45 GHz was tested by placing it in six realistic configurations relative to a male and female human model. The exposure assessment was performed by means of computational methods to estimate the SAR(10g) distributions at 1W of input power. (3) Results: (i) for all the configurations the SAR(10g) distributions resulted always mainly concentrated on a superficial area immediately below the antenna itself; (ii) the obtained values have shown that the configuration with the highest exposure value was when the antenna was posed on the arm; (iii) the exposure tends to be higher for male model. (4) Discussion and Conclusions: This work highlights the importance of performing an exposure assessment when the antenna is placed on the human wearer considering the growth of the wearable technology and its wide variety of fields of application, e.g., medical and military. |
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spelling | pubmed-91406962022-05-28 Human Exposure Assessment to Wearable Antennas: Effect of Position and Interindividual Anatomical Variability Gallucci, Silvia Bonato, Marta Chiaramello, Emma Fiocchi, Serena Tognola, Gabriella Parazzini, Marta Int J Environ Res Public Health Article (1) Background: This work aims to assess the human exposure to the RF-EMFs emitted by a wearable antenna. (2) Methods: a wearable antenna tuned at f = 2.45 GHz was tested by placing it in six realistic configurations relative to a male and female human model. The exposure assessment was performed by means of computational methods to estimate the SAR(10g) distributions at 1W of input power. (3) Results: (i) for all the configurations the SAR(10g) distributions resulted always mainly concentrated on a superficial area immediately below the antenna itself; (ii) the obtained values have shown that the configuration with the highest exposure value was when the antenna was posed on the arm; (iii) the exposure tends to be higher for male model. (4) Discussion and Conclusions: This work highlights the importance of performing an exposure assessment when the antenna is placed on the human wearer considering the growth of the wearable technology and its wide variety of fields of application, e.g., medical and military. MDPI 2022-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9140696/ /pubmed/35627414 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19105877 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gallucci, Silvia Bonato, Marta Chiaramello, Emma Fiocchi, Serena Tognola, Gabriella Parazzini, Marta Human Exposure Assessment to Wearable Antennas: Effect of Position and Interindividual Anatomical Variability |
title | Human Exposure Assessment to Wearable Antennas: Effect of Position and Interindividual Anatomical Variability |
title_full | Human Exposure Assessment to Wearable Antennas: Effect of Position and Interindividual Anatomical Variability |
title_fullStr | Human Exposure Assessment to Wearable Antennas: Effect of Position and Interindividual Anatomical Variability |
title_full_unstemmed | Human Exposure Assessment to Wearable Antennas: Effect of Position and Interindividual Anatomical Variability |
title_short | Human Exposure Assessment to Wearable Antennas: Effect of Position and Interindividual Anatomical Variability |
title_sort | human exposure assessment to wearable antennas: effect of position and interindividual anatomical variability |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9140696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35627414 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19105877 |
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