Temporal and spatial variability of personal exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields

Environmental Research

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 779-785

  Frei, Patrizia ^a,b   Mohler, Evelyn ^a,b   Neubauer, Georg ^c   Theis, Gaston ^d   Bürgi, Alfred ^e   Fröhlich, Jürg ^f   Braun Fahrländer, Charlotte ^b   Bolte, John ^g   Egger, Matthias ^a   Röösli, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^d Air Quality Management Agency of Basel   (Switzerland)

^e ARIAS Umweltforschungberatung   (Switzerland)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DECT cordless phone; Exposimeter; Mobile phone base station; Radio and television broadcast; Radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMF); Wireless LAN (W LAN)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIO WAVE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AIRPORT; ARTICLE; DAYTIME; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NIGHTTIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAILWAY; SWITZERLAND; TELECOMMUNICATION; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CELLULAR PHONE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION MONITORING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

BASEL; BASEL-STADT; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 67649407287     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2009.04.015     Document Type: Article

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