ELF noise fields: A review

Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 72-97

  Mild, Kjell Hansson ^a   Mattsson, Mats Olof ^b,c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Broadband noise; Coherence; Constancy; Low level effect

Indexed keywords

BIO-EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BROADBAND NOISE; CHICK EMBRYO; COHERENCE; COHERENCE TIME; CONSTANCY; DAUDI CELLS; EMF EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; HEALTH EFFECTS; LIVING CELL; LONG TERM; LOW-LEVEL EFFECT; MAGNETIC NOISE; NOISE FIELDS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RESEARCH GROUPS; SPATIAL AVERAGING; WASHINGTON;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION PROTECTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; RADIATION PROTECTION;

EID: 77955673675     PISSN: 15368378     EISSN: 15368386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15368378.2010.482487     Document Type: Review

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