Nesta pesquisa é feita uma análise da interação do campo eletromagnético gerado por microcomputadores portáteis com o corpo humano, operando na faixa de radiocomunicações WI-FI, através da avaliação da taxa de absorção especifica (SAR). Os modelos de corpo humano heterogêneos utilizados são de um adulto de 34 anos e duas crianças de 6 e 11 anos os quais foram analisados em varias situações típicas de exposição à presença de um microcomputador portátil. Nas simulações dos cenários para avaliar a dosimetria foi utilizada a versão comercial do programa chamado SEMCAD X que é baseado no Método das Diferenças Finitas no Domínio no Tempo (FDTD). Da análise das simulações do modelo de corpo inteiro, o único resultado que ultrapassou a recomendação do (FCC, 1997) para 1 g de tecido foi na situação em que o microcomputador portátil, com a antena dipolo na parte posterior do teclado, está no colo do modelo de 34 anos. Numa segunda etapa, é feito um estudo teórico experimental da intensidade do campo elétrico gerado por dispositivos geradores de sinais Wi-Fi comerciais. Analisa-se à propagação de ondas eletromagnéticas através de paredes, utilizando uma antena monocone não ressonante e de banda larga, mediante o estudo e análise da sua taxa de onda estacionária. As medidas visam avaliar que projetando uma parede com uma espessura determinada consegue a propagação dos campos eletromagnéticos evitando reflexões e pontos quentes que possam produzir uma taxa de absorção maior no corpo humano presente nestes ambientes, além de caracterizar as propriedades dielétricas destas paredes. / This research analyses the interaction of the electromagnetic field generated by portable computers with the human body, operating in the range of radio Wi-Fi, by evaluating the specific absorption rate (SAR). The heterogeneous human body models used were those of a 34 years old adult and two children aged 6 and 11, were analyzed under various standard conditions of exposure to the presence of a portable microcomputer. The commercial version of SEMCAD X which is based on the Finite Difference Method in the Time Domain (FDTD) method was used in the simulations of the scenarios, to evaluate the dosimetry. The analysis of the simulation of the whole body model, the only result that exceeded the recommendation of the (FCC, 1997) for 1g of tissue was the simulation in which the dipole antenna on the back of the keyboard of the laptop resting on the lap of the 34-year old model. In the second stage, a theoretical experimental study was made of the intensity of the electric field created from Wi-Fi band signals generating devices. Subsequently, an analysis is made of the propagation of the electromagnetic waves through walls, using a non-resonant broadband monocone antenna by analyzing its voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR). The measures aim to assess that designing a wall with a given thickness, propagation of electromagnetic waves can be achieved, thus avoiding reflections and hot spots that can lead to higher SAR in the human body present in these environments, moreover to characterize the dielectric properties of these walls.

L'objectif de cette thèse est de traiter la problématique de la caractérisation et du traitement de la variabilité de l'exposition humaine aux ondes radio à travers l'utilisation de la dosimétrie numérique. En effet, si les progrès dans le domaine du calcul hautes performances ont contribué à significativement réduire les temps de simulation pour l'évaluation de l'exposition humaine, ce calcul du débit d'absorption spécifique reste un processus coûteux en temps. Avec la grande variabilité des usages, cette contrainte fait que la prise en compte de l'influence de paramètres d'entrée aléatoires sur l'exposition ne peut se faire par des méthodes classiques telles que les simulations de Monte Carlo. Nous proposons dans ces travaux deux approches pour répondre à cette problématique. La première s'appuie sur l'utilisation et l'hybridation de méthodes de construction de modèles de substitution afin d'étudier l'influence globale des paramètres d'entrée. La deuxième vise à l'évaluation efficace et parcimonieuse des quantiles à 95% des distributions de sortie et s'appuie sur le développement d'une méthode de planification d'expériences adaptative et orientée couplée à la construction de modèles de substitution. Les méthodes proposées dans ce manuscrit sont comparées et testées sur des exemples analytiques et ensuite appliquées à des problèmes concrets issus de la dosimétrie numérique / The purpose of this thesis is to deal with the problem of the management and the characterization of the variability of the human exposure to radio frequency waves through the use of the numerical dosimetry. As a matter of fact, if the recent advances in the high performance computing domain led to reduce significantly the simulation duration for the evaluation of the human exposure, this computation of the specific absorption rate remains a time-consuming process. With the variability of the usage, this constraint does not allow the analysis of the influence of random input parameters on the exposure to be achieved with classical approaches such as Monte Carlo simulations. In this work, two approaches are proposed to address this problem. The first one is based on the use and the hybridization of construction methods of surrogate models in order to study the global influence of the input parameters. The second one aims at assessing efficiently the 95th-percentiles of the output distributions in a parcimonous way. It is based on the development of an adaptive and oriented methodology of design of experiments combined with the construction of surrogate models. In this manuscript, the proposed methods are compared and tested on analytical examples and then applicated to full-scale problems from the numerical dosimetry

<p>With the development of wireless communication technology, second-, third-, fourth-generation transmission systems based on electromagnetic (EM) waves are widely used. At the same time, public concerns have been raised about whether the use of such systems will have an impact on health and safety standards. The heating effect is the most prominent and scientifically verifiable biological effect. So, the influence of EM waves on human body is addressed by studying the heating characteristics on head models.</p> <p>The objective of this thesis is to study the effects of radio frequency (RF) waves radiation from mobile phones on the human head under different transmission generations. The six-layer head model is used to evaluate the specific absorption rate (SAR) distribution and thermal effect. This model allows to study the effects of SAR and temperature rise without the need for high computational resources. In order to find the effect of temperature rise and exposure time, the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method was used to solve the biothermal equation with appropriate boundary conditions.</p> <p>Also, different age-dependent head models are used to study the differences of SAR for children at different ages.</p> <p>In general, the results show that with the increase in frequency, the influence of the EM wave is more pronounced, as demonstrated by the SAR and temperature rise distribution. In addition, SAR distribution of younger ages show a significant increase, which indicates that children exposed to EM waves are subject to more harmed. </p>

Les recherches en dosimétrie numérique non-ionisante ont connu des avancées considérables notamment grâce à la capacité de calcul croissante des ordinateurs. Ces dernières années, la prise en compte de la variabilité dans la dosimétrie est devenue un enjeu majeur. Les sources de variabilité sont nombreuses, parmi elles, les conditions d'exposition au rayonnement électromagnétique peuvent induire des doses absorbées très différentes. La modélisation de canal de propagation en environnement intérieur a permis d'avoir une connaissance précise des conditions d'exposition d'un corps humain plongé dans cet environnement. Cette thèse a pour but de développer une méthode statistique du calcul de la dose absorbée par le corps et d'adapter le modèle de canal stochastique à la dosimétrie. L'étude statistique de l'exposition a révélé la nécessité d'obtenir les valeurs de Débit d'Absorption Spécifique corps entier dans le cas d'expositions à une onde plane pour tous les angles d'incidence possibles. Compte tenu des temps de calcul particulièrement long en dosimétrie, une méthode d'interpolation efficace, le krigeage, des valeurs de Débit d'Absorption Spécifique a été mise en oeuvre. L'analyse de sensibilité aux paramètres du canal des moments du Débit d'Absorption Spécifique a permis de connaître l'impact de chacun de ces paramètres. Le modèle de canal a pu être simplifié et donc adapté à la dosimétrie tout en quantifiant l'erreur d'approximation qu'implique cette simplification. Cette thèse répond à l'enjeu de la prise en compte de la variabilité en dosimétrie dans un environnement complexe. / Research in non-ionizing numerical dosimetry has been improved thanks to high calculation capacity of computers. These years, integrating variability in the field of dosimetry has become a major issue. Sources of variability are numerous; among them, there are the exposure conditions to electromagnetic radiation which can lead to very different absorbed doses. Indoor channel modeling enables to have a deep knowledge of the exposure conditions of a human body located inside this indoor environment. The aim of this thesis is to develop a statistical method of calculation of the absorbed dose by the human body and to adapt the stochastic channel model to dosimetry. The statistical study of exposure reveals the need to obtain Specific Absorption Rate values for a plane wave exposure for all possible angles of incidence. Taking into account that computation in dosimetry is time consuming, an efficient interpolation method, kriging method, is implemented in order to get whole body Specific Absorption Rate values. Kriging method enables to obtain Specific Absorption Rate for all possible angles of incidence and then to calculate expectation and variance of Specific Absorption Rate. Sensitivity Analysis of expectation and variance to the statistical channel parameters reveals the impact of each parameter. The channel model has been simplified and then adapted to dosimetry by estimating the approximation error induced by this reduction. This thesis answers to the issue of integrating variability in dosimetry in a complex environment and develop the tools that open a new path in studying exposure in any complex environment.

Due to the great demand for high-speed wireless communication, Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) antenna systems have been attracted rapidly increased attention. Therefore, the interaction between human body and MIMO antenna becomes an important issue, which will be studied in the present thesis. This thesis mainly focuses on the specific absorption rate (SAR) of the LTE MIMO antenna in mobile phone. It is different from the SISO antenna, and as the MIMO antenna has more operation modes and functions (MIMO, SISO, beam forming, etc.), more parameters need to be investigated for the SAR of the antenna. In this thesis, four designs of dual elements MIMO antenna (dual semi ground free PIFA, co-located antenna, dual OG PIFA in parallel position and dual OG PIFA in orthogonal position) are studied under four typical LTE frequency points (0.75GHz, 0.85GHz 1.9Ghz and 2.1/2.6GHz), with the effects of different chassis lengths (90mm, 110mm, 130mm and 150mm), the port’s states (terminated with 50ohm, open or short) and phase difference (0 degree to 360 degree). The SAR, when dual elements operate simultaneously, is also studied, which is evaluated by the SAR to PEAK Location Spacing Ratio (SPLSR). The simulations are run on both a SAM head phantom and a flat phantom by CST 2011, and measurements on flat phantom are carried out with iSAR and Dasy to verify the accuracy of our simulations. Besides SAR, the body loss of MIMO and SISO LTE antennas (MIMO: dual semi ground free PIFA and co-located Antenna; SISO: OG PIFA on top and OG PIFA at the bottom) in mobile phones are also studied in this thesis. The body loss and multiplex efficiency (MUX) with head and hand (H+H) in an increased cell phone case length (110mm, 130mm and 150mm) are investigated and discussed. Furthermore, some prominent problems in body loss study (body loss reduction, right and left hand problem, etc.) are also discussed in this thesis.

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A grande maioria da população mundial está crescentemente exposta à radiação eletromagnética proveniente de fontes que muitas vezes estão localizadas nas proximidades do corpo. A radiação eletromagnética é considerada um agente possivelmente cancerígeno para as pessoas, classificação 2B indicada pela Organização Mundial da Saúde-OMS (WHO/IARC, 2011). Devido às preocupações em relação aos riscos associados a esta exposição existem normas que recomendam os valores máximos de exposição permitidos (ICNIRP, 1998; FCC, 2001). A correta avaliação das doses de radiação é, portanto, relevante. Este trabalho tem a finalidade de avaliar o impacto dos resultados do cálculo da dose da Taxa de Absorção Específica (SAR) em usuários expostos a radiação por tablets operando na faixa de radiocomunicações Wi-fi. Os três modelos existentes de cabeça humana utilizados serão um manequim homogêneo SAM phantom e dois modelos de cabeça realistas heterogêneos: um adulto masculino e uma criança masculina. Será também utilizado nas simulações um modelo masculino de criança que foi desenvolvido através de imagens de tomografia computadorizada (TC) pelo processo de segmentação feito no software AMIRA. Será utilizado um modelo genérico de tablet. Os parâmetros dosimétricos usados para simulação da SAR serão computados pelo software SEMCAD X que é baseado no Método das Diferenças Finitas no Domínio do Tempo (FDTD). Será criado também um código do Método FDTD através do software MATLAB que servirá para a escolha dos parâmetros do SEMCAD X. A distância entre o tablet e os modelos de cabeças varia de 50 mm a 300 mm. Os resultados da SAR serão comparados com os limites de exposição recomendados pelas normas internacionais. Também serão simuladas diferentes posições da antena no tablet. Da análise dos resultados foi constatado que os valores de SAR são muito baixos e todos os resultados ficaram dentro dos limites do psSAR recomendados pela FCC de 1,6 W/kg em cada 1 g de tecido e de 2 W/kg em cada 10 g de tecido estabelecidos pela ICNIRP. Comparando os valores de SAR do modelo SAM com o modelo DUKE, o modelo SAM se mostra conservador, porém quando a comparação é feita com as crianças o SAM deixa de ser conservador. / The vast majority of the world population is increasingly exposed to electromagnetic radiation from sources which are often located near to the body. Electromagnetic radiation is considered a possible carcinogen for people, classification 2B indicated by the World Health Organization-WHO (WHO/IARC, 2011). Due to concerns regarding the risks associated with this exposition there are regulations suggesting maximum allowed exposure values (ICNIRP, 1998; FCC, 2001). The correct evaluation of radiation doses is therefore relevant. This work aims to assess the impact of the results of the calculation of Specific Absorption Rate dose (SAR) in users exposed to radiation from tablets operating in the Wi-fi band. The three existing models of human head used are a homogeneous dummy SAM phantom and two heterogeneous realistic head models: a male adult and a male child. It will also be used in the simulations a male child model which was developed from computed tomography (CT) imaging using the AMIRA software for the segmentation process. A generic model of tablet is used. Dosimetric parameters used for simulation of the SAR are computed using the SEMCAD X software which is based on the Finite Difference Method in Time Domain (FDTD). A FDTD code was developed using the MATLAB software in order to help to choose the input SEMCAD X parameters. The distances between the tablet and the head of the models varies from 50 mm to 300 mm. SAR results are compared with the exposure limits recommended by international standards. Different antenna positions on the tablet are simulated too. Examining the results it was found that the SAR values are very low and all results are within the psSAR limits recommended by FCC (1,6 W/kg averaged over 1 g of tissue) and by ICNIRP (2 W/kg in 10 g of tissue). Comparing the SAR in the SAM model with the SAR in the DUKE model, the SAM model shows to be conservative. However, when compared with the children, the SAM is not conservative.

Dans cette thèse, nous proposons des modifications de conception d’antenne PIFA concernant la téléphonie mobile afin de réduire le taux de pénétration des ondes électromagnétiques dans la tête. Trois antennes ont été considérées: une antenne PIFA à bande unique fonctionnant à 1,8 GHz, une antenne PIFA à bande double fonctionnant à 900 MHz et à 1,8 GHz, et une antenne PIFA tri-bande à 900 MHz, 1800 MHz et 2400 MHz. La densité de courant de surface le long du plan de masse a été réduite en diminuant le rayonnement du champ électrique émis par l’antenne émettrice vers le corps, ce qui a entraîné une réduction de la densité de courant le long de la tête humaine ainsi que du SAR. Cette réduction du SAR a été réalisée en insérant plusieurs traitements de bords tels qu'une forme en U à chaque coin du plan de masse de l'antenne. Nous avons étudié trois types des antennes : la première, lorsque les bords U sont constitués de PEC, nous obtenons une réduction du SAR de 78,6%. La seconde utilise un type de liquide considéré comme absorbant. Avec ce liquide, deux antennes ont été analysées: une PIFA à bande unique fonctionnant à 1,8 GHz et une PIFA à bande double fonctionnant à 900 MHz et à1,8 GHz. Dans ce scénario, le bord en U est constitué d’eau, et nous avons constaté que la valeur maximale du SAR moyen sur 10 g de tissu était réduite à 73,52% pour une PIFA à bande unique, tandis que le pic de SAR a été réduit à 88,78% et 90,31% en cas de double bande. Afin de préserver la hauteur de l'antenne et de la rendre plus réaliste, un autre type d’antenne a été modélisé en insérant des arêtes en forme de U à chaque extrémité du plan de masse. Dans ce cas, la réduction du SAR a été la suivante: 74,5% à 1800 MHz pour une bande unique et environ 64,37%, 79,92% et 54,71% à 900 MHz, 1800 MHz et 2400 MHz pour une antenne tri-bande, et pour une moyenne de masse de tissu égale à 10g. Dans une dernière partie, cette thèse propose une antenne optimisée pour des transmissions de la station de base vers l'utilisateur d’un téléphone mobile, en exploitant la bande GSM-900. L’objectif principal de cette étude est de fournir une intensité de champ constante sur la surface de couverture, afin de minimiser certains effets biologiques considérés comme dangereux pour la santé humaine. / In this thesis, we propose new types of mobile handset PIFA antenna design to reduce the specific absorption rate (SAR) in human head. Three antennas were considered: a single band PIFA operating at 1.8 GHz, a dual band PIFA operating at 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz, and a Triband PIFA operating at 900MHz, GSM 1800MHz, and 2400MHz. Surface current density along the ground plane was decreased by reducing the near electric field radiation coming from the radiating antenna to the human head, which in turns leads to a reduction in current density along human head as well as the SAR. This SAR reduction is accomplished by inserting several edges treatment such as U-shape at each corner of the ground plane of antenna. In this scenario, we studied three types: first one, when U-edges are made of PEC, we get SAR reduction about 78.6%. Second one is a liquid type that is considered as more advanced type. For this type, two antennas are considered: a single band PIFA operating at 1.8 GHz, and a dual band PIFA operating at 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz. In this scenario, two cases were studied: first one when the U-edge is made of water, we noticed that the peak SAR value averaged over 10 g mass tissue was reduced to 73.52% in the case of single band PIFA, whereas the peak SAR was reduced to 88.78% and 90.31% in case of dual band. Second case, when U-edge filled with water, this enhanced structure was presented to overcome the manufacturing limitations of the first case design. Simulation results showed a better performance in terms of reflection coefficient and radiation pattern for both single-band and dual-band antennas. The results of SAR were also similar to the first case structure design for the single-band antenna. However, the SAR was slightly higher for the dual-band antenna, but it still remains very low (1.6 W/Kg at 900 MHz and 0.6 W/Kg at 1800 MHz). After that, for preserving the height of antenna, and making it more realistic to be applied, another type was done by inserting U-edges above each corner of the ground plane. In this case, we get SAR reduction as follows: 74.5% at GSM1800MHz in case of single band, and about 64.37%, 79.92%, and 54.71% at GSM900MHz, GSM1800MHz, and 2400 MHz in case of Tri-band averaged over 10g mass tissue. On the other hand, this thesis presents a modern and unprecedented safety antenna that transmits from the base station to the mobile user being operated at the GSM-900 band. The main objective of this study is to provide a constant field strength or a uniform coverage over a certain surface area, for preventing human health from several hazardous biological effects, and this strongly depends on the studied site (e.g. if it is densely urban, rural, open area, etc.). Our proposed design is synthesized using S.A.R.A (Synthesis of Array of Antenna) software. Besides, Atoll GSM planning tool is used to ensure the signal coverage and power strength for the safety antenna, and CST (Computer Simulation Technology) software for simulating the proposed antenna.

<div>Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an invaluable tool in health care. Despite its popularity, there is still an ever-increasing need for faster scans and better image quality. Multi-coil MRI, which uses multiple transmit and/or receive coils, holds the potential to address many of these MRI challenges. Multi-coil MRI systems can utilize parallel transmission (pTx) technology using multi-dimensional radio-frequency (RF) pulses for parallel excitation. The pTx platform is shown to be superior in high-field MRI. Therefore, this dissertation is focused on the RF pulse design and optimization on an MRI system with multiple transceiver coils.</div><div> </div><div>This dissertation addresses three major research topics. First, we investigate the optimization of pTx RF pulses when considering both transmitters and receivers of the MRI system. We term this framework multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) MRI. The RF pulse design method is modeled by minimizing the excitation error while simultaneously maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the reconstructed MR image. It further allows a key trade-off between the SNR and the excitation accuracy. Additionally, multiple acceleration factors, different numbers of used receive coils, maximum excitation error tolerance, and different excitation patterns are simulated and analyzed within this model. For a given excitation pattern, our method is shown to improve the SNR by 18-130% under certain acceleration schemes, as compared to conventional parallel transmission methods, while simultaneously controlling the excitation error in a desired scope.</div><div> </div><div>Second, we propose a pTx RF pulse design method that controls the peak local specific absorption rates (SARs) using a compressed set of SAR matrices. RF power, peak local SARs, excitation accuracy, and SNR are simultaneously controlled in the designed pTx RF pulses. An alternative compression method using k-means clustering algorithm is proposed for an upper-bounded estimation of peak local SARs. The performance of the pTx design method is simulated using a human head model and an eight-channel transceiver coil array. The proposed method reduces the 10-g peak local SAR by 44.6-54.2%, as compared to the unconstrained pTx approach, when it has a pre-defined lower bound of SNR and an upper bound of excitation error tolerance. The k-means clustering-based SAR compression model shows its efficiency as it generates a narrower and more accurate overestimation bound than the conventional SAR compression model.</div><div> </div><div>Finally, we propose two machine learning based pTx RF pulse design methods and test them for the ultra-fast pTx RF pulse prediction. The two methods proposed are the kernelized ridge regression (KRR) based pTx RF pulse design and the feedforward neural network (FNN) based pTx RF pulse design. These two methods learn the training pTx RF pulses from the extracted key features of their corresponding B1+ fields. These methods are compared with other supervised learning methods (nearest-neighbor methods, etc.). All learned pTx RF pulses should be reasonably SAR-efficient because training pTx RF pulses are SAR-efficient. Longer computation time and pre-scan time are the drawbacks of the current pTx approach, and we address this issue by instantaneously predicting pTx RF pulses using well-trained machine learning models.</div>