Exposure assessment of mobile phone base station radiation in an outdoor environment using sequential surrogate modeling

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 300-311

  Aerts, Sam ^a   Deschrijver, Dirk ^a   Joseph, Wout ^a   Verloock, Leen ^a   Goeminne, Francis ^a   Martens, Luc ^a   Dhaene, Tom ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Base station; Exposimeter; Exposure assessment; Exposure model; Exposure of the general public; Non ionizing radiation; Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields; RF measurement

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; IONIZING RADIATION; LOCATION; RADIATION SHIELDING;

EXPOSIMETER; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; EXPOSURE MODELS; EXPOSURE OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC; NONIONIZING RADIATION; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; RF MEASUREMENTS; STATION RADIATION;

BASE STATIONS;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CELLULAR PHONE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 84876070653     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.21764     Document Type: Article

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