Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields

The ubiquity of electromagnetic fields in the environment, especially the urban environment, has raised questions and sometimes heated debates about their possible adverse health effects on humans. Poljak (electronics, U. of Split, Croatia) provides some fundamental information regarding the interaction of humans with electromagnetic fields, covering several aspects of the incident and internal electromagnetic field dosimetry, thermal modelling, coupling mechanisms, measurement techniques, and adopted international safety standards. His own research is the foundation for the core of the study, which presents the essentials of the mathematical modelling of human exposure to electromagnetic fields. His approach uses the parasitic antenna representation of the human body and the boundary element solution of the corresponding integral equations arising from the wire antenna theory. The book is not indexed. The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)