Exploring Current Risks of Mobile Telephony in Hospital and Clinical Environments

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 3609-3612

  Yang, Lan ^a   Frize, Monique ^a   Eng, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cellular phones; Electromagnetic interference; Hospitals; Medical devices

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; HEALTH CARE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

CELLULAR PHONES; MEDICAL DEVICES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 1542330241     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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