Measuring personal exposure from 900 MHz mobile phone base stations in Australia and Belgium using a novel personal distributed exposimeter

Environment International

Volumn 92-93, Issue , 2016, Pages 388-397

  Bhatt, Chhavi Raj ^a   Thielens, Arno ^b   Redmayne, Mary ^a   Abramson, Michael J ^a   Billah, Baki ^a   Sim, Malcolm R ^a   Vermeulen, Roel ^c,d,e   Martens, Luc ^b   Joseph, Wout ^b   Benke, Geza ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; INSTRUMENTATION;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BELGIUM; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOBILE PHONE; PERSONAL DISTRIBUTED EXPOSIMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUSTRALIA; BELGIUM;

AUSTRALIA; BELGIUM; CELL PHONE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; HUMANS; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 84964494534     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2016.03.032     Document Type: Article

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