Influence of a 902.4 MHz GSM signal on the human visual system: Investigation of the discrimination threshold

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 648-654

  Irlenbusch, Lars ^a   Bartsch, Bengt ^b   Cooper, Justin ^c   Herget, Ilse ^c   Marx, Bernd ^d   Raczek, Johannes ^c   Thoss, Franz ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c T SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^d DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human eye; Mobile phone; Radical pair mechanism; Radiofrequency (RF); Visual discrimination threshold (VDThr)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS;

DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLDS; HUMAN EYE; RADICAL PAIR MECHANISM; RADIO-FREQUENCY EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCIES; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL-ON; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLD;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 36549026422     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20344     Document Type: Article

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