What input data are needed to accurately model electromagnetic fields from mobile phone base stations?

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 53-57

  Beekhuizen, Johan ^a   Kromhout, Hans ^a   Bürgi, Alfred ^b   Huss, Anke ^a   Vermeulen, Roel ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ARIAS Umweltforschungberatung   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D modelling; Accuracy; Base stations; Mobile phone; Radio frequency; Radio wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOBILE PHONE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CELL PHONES; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84927176436     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2014.1     Document Type: Article

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