Representativeness and repeatability of microenvironmental personal and head exposures to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields

Environmental Research

Volumn 162, Issue , 2018, Pages 81-96

  Thielens, Arno ^a,b   Van den Bossche, Matthias ^a   Brzozek, Christopher ^c   Bhatt, Chhavi Raj ^c   Abramson, Michael J ^c   Benke, Geza ^c   Martens, Luc ^a   Joseph, Wout ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Head Exposure; Personal Exposure; Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT; CORRELATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIO WAVE; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBURBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETISM; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; MICROENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SUBURBAN AREA; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AUSTRALIA; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 85039737118     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.12.017     Document Type: Article

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