Age-dependent tissue-specific exposure of cell phone users

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Christ, Andreas ^a   Gosselin, Marie Christine ^a   Christopoulou, Maria ^b   Kühn, Sven ^a,c   Kuster, Niels ^a,c  

^a FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOCIETY IT IS   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MARROW; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL PHONE; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; INDUCED FIELD; PINEAL GLAND; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TISSUE PROPERTIES;

ABSORPTION; BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; RESONANCE; TELEPHONE; TISSUE;

TELEPHONE SETS;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS;

ADULT; AGING; BRAIN; CELLULAR PHONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949768696     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/7/001     Document Type: Article

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