Exposure metrics for RF epidemiology: Cellular phone handsets

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 165-169

  Balzano, Q ^a  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BODY BUILD; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SHORT SURVEY; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0032905585     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a032654     Document Type: Short Survey

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