Comparison of the absorption characteristics of block and prolate spheroidal models of man exposed to near fields of short electric dipole

It is shown that the average specific absorption rates (SAR's) in a prolate spheroidal model of man are essentially the same as those for a block model of man irradiated by a short electric dipole at 27.12 MHz, even in the near fields. For purposes of average SAR, this allows use of the simpler and less expensive prolate spheroidal calculations.