Exposure setup to test effects of wireless communications systems on the CNS

Health Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 770-778

  Burkhardt, Michael ^b   Spinelli, Yuri ^b   Kuster, Niels ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Nonionizing; Radiation; Radiofrequency; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN TISSUE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0030810426     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199711000-00004     Document Type: Article

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