The Association between exposure determined by radio frequency personal exposimeters and human exposure: A simulation study

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 535-545

  Neubauer, Georg ^a,b   Cecil, Stefan ^a   Giczi, Wolfram ^a   Petric, Benjamin ^a   Preiner, Patrick ^a   Fröhlich, Jürg ^c   Röösli, Martin ^d  

^a EMC and Optics   (Austria)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Exposimeter; Exposure; RF; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CORRECTION FACTORS; EXPOSIMETER; EXPOSURE; FIELD LEVEL; FIELD STRENGTHS; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN EXPOSURES; RADIOFREQUENCIES; RF; SIMULATION;

LOCATION;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIO WAVES; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 77954536418     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20587     Document Type: Article

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