IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Special Section on Recent Progress in Antennas and Propagation in Conjunction with Main Topics of ISAP2010
SAR-Probe Calibration System Using Reference Dipole Antenna in Tissue-Equivalent Liquid
Nozomu ISHIIYukihiro MIYOTAKen-ichi SATOLira HAMADASoichi WATANABE
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2012 Volume E95.B Issue 1 Pages 60-68

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The probe used in the conventional SAR measurement is usually calibrated in a well filled with tissue-equivalent liquid surrounded by a rectangular waveguide and a matching dielectric window in the frequency range from 800MHz to 3GHz. However, below 800MHz, the waveguides are too large to be used for the calibration. Therefore, we have developed another technique of calibrating the SAR-probe, that is, relating the output voltage of the probe to the field intensity produced by a reference antenna in the tissue-equivalent liquid by using two-antenna method. In this paper, the calibration system using the reference dipole antennas in the liquid at 450MHz, 900MHz and 2450MHz is presented and far-field gain of the reference antenna and calibration factor of the SAR-probe are measured and compared with those obtained by using the conventional waveguide system.

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