KB02: Electromagnetic Modeling of the Human Body

Friday, August 22  16:00-17:40,  Room #10

Session Chairs: Tomoaki Nagaoka, Ursula van Rienen

Electromagnetic Modeling of the Human Body plays a key role in simulations related to many actual problems, especially those from Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and Biomedical Engineering. In EMC, detailed and highly reliable knowledge on the interaction of high-power EM fields with the human body is needed. Those fields are widely used in communications and in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems. The waves deposit significant amounts of energy in the tissues and can cause serious damage to cells. This risk has to be avoided for the user of the communication system as well as to the patients and the operators of MRI. Another field from biomedical engineering covers electrically stimulating implants but also the use of electric or magnetic fields for impedance tomography. Highly resolved human body models are vital in order to achieve reliable predictions. Recently, the focus of interest went into discrimination between the various user groups, i.e. children, elderly people, men, woman and also typically physiognomies, and uncertainty quantification gained in importance. This session focuses on advanced computational models of whole-body or a part for the electromagnetic modeling of the human body and their applications with various approaches of numerical methods.

16:00  KB02.1   ON THE OPTIMIZATION OF THE HIP STEM FOR AN ELECTROSTIMULATIVE HIP REVISION SYSTEM

U. Zimmermann, U. van Rienen

Institute of General Electrical Engineering, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany


16:20  KB02.2   INFLUENCE OF VOLUME CONDUCTOR MODELING ON SOURCE RECONSTRUCTION IN MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

J. Haueisen1, S. Lau1,2, L. Flemming3, H. Sonntag4, B. Maess4, D. Guellmar5

1Institut für Biomedizinische Technik und Informatik, Ilmenau University of Technology, Ilmenau, Germany
2NeuroEngineering Lab., Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
3Biomagnetic Center, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany
45Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
5Dpt. of Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany


16:40  KB02.3   EXACT ANALYTICAL 2D MODEL OF THE HUMAN HEAD SURROUNDED BY A DIELECTRIC PAD

P. L. E. Uslenghi, D. Erricolo

Dept. of ECE, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States


17:00  KB02.4   NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF LOCAL SAR IN ANATOMICAL PHANTOM IMPLANTED WITH METALLIC OSTEOSYNTHESIS PLATES EXPOSED TO 2GHZ RF FIELDS

T. Hikage1, T. Ono1, T. Nojima1, T. Nagaoka2, S. Watanabe2

1Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
2National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan


17:20  KB02.5   COMPARISONS OF SARS IN HUMAN FETUSES FROM SIMPLE AND REALISTIC PORTABLE RADIO TERMINALS

A. Tateno1, T. Nagaoka2, K. Saito1, S. Watanabe2, M. Takahashi1, C. Person3, J. Wiart4, K. Ito1

1Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
2National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan
3TELECOM Bretagne, Brest, France
4France Telecom Orange Labs, Issy les Moulineaux, France