Assessment of Energy Absorption and Hemolysis of RBCs Due to a Wearable Antenna

This paper presents results of numerical analysis of the amount and distribution of the energy absorbed in a suspension from human erythrocytes exposed by a wearable textile antenna. It also reports levels of hemoglobin released by the blood suspension after 20 min exposure with EMF from the wearable textile antenna. The results suggest that irradiation of the RBCs with EMF from the wearable textile antenna (exposure duration 20 min, at 2.41 GHz and peak 1 g average SAR from 0.5386 W/kg produced in cell suspensions at the input power of 6.3 mW) probably have a weak stabilizing effect on the erythrocyte membranes.