RF absorption in biological tissue at varying distances and angles and rapport to tissue impedance

Abstract

Exposure of the general public to low-level RF fields causes direct or indirect coupling of the fields in the human body. Due to this coupling, there is an induction of the fields inside the body tissue that causes currents in the tissue while the tissue absorbs RF power. In this work, the RF absorption by a biological tissue was measured by using an antenna trainer in a laboratory set up by varying distances and angles of RF radiation source. Using the detector current, the absorbed power by the tissue as well as the incident component of Electric field upon the receiving antenna was calculated with and without the tissue. From calculating rms value of the field, the voltage inside the tissue was estimated. Using the absorbed power and voltage inside the tissue, the impedance inside the tissue was calculated. Results indicated that the more impedance values inside the tissue incur more absorption of RF power. The more dominant effects for angles than the distances were obtained for absorbed power by the tissue.