BioElectromagnetics is the study of how electromagnetic fields interact with the body. Cell phones, overhead power lines, and implantable medical devices and sensors are some of the applications we have worked on.
Steve Smith, Cynthia Furse, ‘Stochastic FDTD,’ Advances in FDTD Computational Electrodynamics: Photonics and Nanotechnology, Artech-House, 2013. Allen Taflove, Ardavan Oskooi, & Steven G. Johnson, Editors
Cynthia M. Furse, Om P. Gandhi, "A Memory Efficient Method of Computing Specific Absorption Rate in CW FDTD Simulations," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 43, No.5, May 1996, pp. 558-560
(INVITED PAPER) Cynthia M. Furse, David M. Johnson, Alan C. Tripp, " Application of the FDTD Method to Geophysical Simulations," Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Newsletter, March 1999
David Johnson, Cynthia Furse, Alan Tripp, "PML for FDTD Modeling of a Conductive Ore Deposit in a Lossy Dielectric," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 25, No.4, May 20, 2000, pp. 253-255
Alan Tripp, Richard McNeary, Cynthia Furse, "Prof. James Wait and Mining Production Technology -- An appreciation,", IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, Sept. 2000, 48(9), pp. 1438-1441
David Johnson, Elena Cherkaev, Cynthia Furse, Alan Tripp, "Cross-Borehole Delineation of a Conductive Ore Deposit -- Experimental Design," Geophysics, May/June 2001
David Johnson, Cynthia Furse, Alan Tripp, " FDTD Modeling and Validation of EM Survey Tools," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Sept. 20, 2002
Endogenous Fields
Om P. Gandhi, Rodney A. Hart, Ding Wu , Xu B. Chen, Cynthia M. Furse, "Comparison of endogenous with exogenous electric fields and current densities induced in the human body by commonly encountered EMF sources: Power lines, hair dryers, and hair clippers”, Project abstracts: The Annual Review of Research on Biological Effects of Electric and Magnetic Fields from the Generation, Delivery, and Use of Electricity, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 19-21, 1996, p. 26
PML
Cynthia Furse, Y.Cui, Gianluca Lazzi, Om Gandhi, "Use of PML Boundary Conditions for Wireless Telephone Simulations," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 15 No.2, 1997, pp. 95-98
(INVITED PAPER) Cynthia M. Furse, "Application of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method to Bioelectromagnetic Simulations," Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Newsletter, Jan. 1997
Plane Wave Exposures
Adam D. Tinniswood, Cynthia M. Furse, Om P. Gandhi, "Power Deposition in the Head and Neck of an Anatomically-Based Human Body Model for Plane Wave Exposures," Physics Med. Biology, 43(8), Aug. 1998, pp. 2361-2378
Mobile Phones
Om Gandhi, Gianluca Lazzi, Cynthia Furse, "Electromagnetic Absorption in the Human Head and Neck for Mobile Telephones at 835 and 1900 MHz," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 44, No. 10, Part 2, Oct. 1996, pp. 1884-1897
Gianluca Lazzi, Satnam S. Pattnaik, Cynthia M. Furse, Om P. Gandhi, "Comparison of FDTD-Computed and Measured Radiation Patterns of Commercial Mobile Telephones in Presence of the Human Head," IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, 46, No. 6, June 1998, pp.943-944
Adam D. Tinniswood, Cynthia M. Furse, Om P. Gandhi, "Computations of SAR Distributions or Two Anatomically-based Models of the Human Head using CAD Files of Commercial Telephones and the Parallelized FDTD Code," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 1998, pp.829-833
Cynthia M. Furse, Jin-Yuan Chen, Om P. Gandhi, "Frequency-Dependent Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method for Induced Current and SAR Calculations for a Heterogeneous Model of the Human Body," Electricity and Magnetism in Biology and Medicine, Martin Blank, Ed., San Francisco Press, 1993, pp. 575-577
Cynthia M. Furse, Satnam P. Mathur, Om P. Gandhi, "Improvements to the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method for Calculating Radar Cross Section of a Perfectly Conducting Target," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 38(7), July 1990, pp. 919-927.
Jin-Yuan Chen, Cynthia M. Furse, Om P. Gandhi, "A Simple Convolution Procedure for Calculating Currents Induced in the Human Body for Exposure to Electromagnetic Pulses," IEEE Transactions Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 42, No. 7, July 1994, pp. 1172-1175
Om P. Gandhi, Cynthia M. Furse, "Millimeter-resolution MRI-based models of the Human Body for Electromagnetic Dosimetry from ELF to Microwave Frequencies," Voxel Phantom Development: Proc. Of the International Workshop held at NRPB, July 1995, Peter Dimbylow, editor