A personal, distributed exposimeter: Procedure for design, calibration, validation, and application

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Thielens, Arno ^a   Vanveerdeghem, Peter ^a   Van Torre, Patrick ^a   Gängler, Stephanie ^b,c   Röösli, Martin ^b,c   Rogier, Hendrik ^a   Martens, Luc ^a   Joseph, Wout ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Personal exposure assessment; Radio frequency sensor

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; RADIO WAVES; WEARABLE ANTENNAS; WEARABLE SENSORS;

CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (GSM); MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; PERSONAL EXPOSURE ASSESSMENTS; RADIO FREQUENCY SENSORS; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; VALIDATION MEASUREMENTS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84957014946     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s16020180     Document Type: Article

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