EVOLUTION OF A SUITE OF COMPUTATIONAL MODELING TOOLS FOR MOBILE TELEPHONE DOSIMETRY STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD, U.K.

Abstract

The evolution of a set of software and skills for the computational simulation of the interaction of mobile telephones with the human body is reviewed. These have been developed and applied in the authors' research group over the past decade. The work has aimed at maximization of realism in the representation of the body components and the telephone through use of MRI images, use of resolutions down to 1mm, incorporation of a hand into the model, development of a rotation algorithm for the telephone, development of techniques for modeling helical antennas, and development of hybrid techniques to allow the Method of Moments to be used to model the telephone, combined with finite difference methods for the human tissues. Generic experience and specimen results are presented. It is argued that the policy of pursuing realism in the simulation, beyond the level that is sufficient on physical grounds, is essential to convince the non-specialist public of the trustworthiness of the work.