Comparison of Dose Dependences for Bioeffects of Continuous-Wave and High-Peak Power Microwave Emissions Using Gel-Suspended Cell Cultures

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 158-167

  Pakhomov, Andrei G ^a,c   Gajšek, Peter ^c,d   Allen, Lori ^a   Stuck, Bruce E ^b   Murphy, Michael R ^c  

^a Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Growth rate; High power microwave pulses; Nonthermal; Specific effects; Thermal effects; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BIOEFFECT; CONTINUOUS WAVE; HIGH POWER; HIGH POWER MICROWAVE PULSE; HIGH-POWER PULSE; MICROWAVE PULSE; NONTHERMAL; POWER MICROWAVE; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; SPECIFIC EFFECTS;

YEAST;

AGAROSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEATING; MASS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NEPHELOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; YEAST CELL; BIOASSAY; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; MICROWAVES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0036481557     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.108     Document Type: Article

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