GSM mobile phone radiation suppresses brain glucose metabolism

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2293-2301

  Kwon, Myoung Soo ^a   Vorobyev, Victor ^a   Kännälä, Sami ^b   Laine, Matti ^c   Rinne, Juha O ^d   Toivonen, Tommi ^b   Johansson, Jarkko ^d   Teräs, Mika ^d   Lindholm, Harri ^e   Alanko, Tommi ^e   Hämäläinen, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^c ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

cellular phone; electromagnetic field; fluorodeoxyglucose; positron emission tomography; radio frequency

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; BRAIN METABOLISM; CHEEK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FOREHEAD; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; MOBILE PHONE; MOBILE PHONE RADIATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CELLULAR PHONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROWAVES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82555172173     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2011.128     Document Type: Article

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