Determination of the duty cycle of WLAN for realistic radio frequency electromagnetic field exposure assessment

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 30-36

  Joseph, Wout ^a   Pareit, Daan ^a   Vermeeren, Günter ^a   Naudts, Dries ^a   Verloock, Leen ^a   Martens, Luc ^a   Moerman, Ingrid ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Compliance; Duty cycle; Electromagnetic; Exposure; General public; Health risk; ICNIRP; Measurement; Radio frequency; Rf EMF; Wi Fi; WLAN

Indexed keywords

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REVIEW; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIO WAVES; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84875278883     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2012.10.002     Document Type: Review

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