Realizing Highly Localized Exposure in Small Animals with Absorbing Material Covered Holder to Test Biological Effects of 1.5 GHz Cellular Telephones

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E86-B, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1660-1665

  Wang, Jianqing ^a   Fujiwara, Osamu ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absorbing material; Animal experiment; Bio electromagnetic environment; Cellular telephone; Exposure setup

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; TELEPHONE SETS;

MAGNETIC SHEETS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141903949     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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