Dosimetric Analysis of the Carousel Setup for the Exposure of Rats at 1.62 GHz

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 16-26

  Schönborn, Frank ^a,c   Poković, Katja ^b   Kuster, Niels ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Schmid & Partner Engineering AG   (Switzerland)

^c IMS Health GmbH and Co OHG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Exposure apparatus; In vivo; Mobile communications; Rat; RF

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHANTOMS;

ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; EXPOSURE APPARATUS; FREQUENCY RANGES; IN-VIVO; INPUT POWER; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; PHANTOMS; RF; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

RATS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; DOSIMETRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANIMALIA; MARTES PENNANTI; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 18544391995     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.10153     Document Type: Article

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