[Reports on electromagnetic field strength measurements issued for occupational health and safety needs in the opinion of radio communication station users].
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Jan 1, 2007 NEUTRAL
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This paper describes a modified approach for assessing occupational EMF exposure during work on radio and television towers and masts, where exposure can be high and tasks/routes are not fixed. The method calculates maximum admissible dwell time at different mast levels while incorporating the EMF…
Comparison of the effects of continuous and pulsed mobile phone like RF exposure on the human EEG.
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Jan 1, 2007 REASSURANCE
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This study tested whether GSM-like RF exposure affects resting human EEG, focusing on alpha band power and non-linear EEG features. Using a fully counterbalanced cross-over design with 12 participants and a dipole antenna intended to better resemble handset exposure, the authors found no changes…
Magnetic field distribution and signal decay in functional mri in very high fields (up to 9.4 T) using monte carlo diffusion modeling.
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Jan 1, 2007 NEUTRAL
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This paper models extravascular MRI signal decay (R2/R2*) as a function of blood oxygenation, vessel geometry, and magnetic field strength up to 9.4 T using Monte Carlo diffusion simulations. It reports different vessel-size dependencies for Hahn-spin-echo versus gradient-recalled-echo relaxation…
Effects of pulsed electromagnetic field vibration on tooth movement induced by magnetic and mechanical forces: a preliminary study.
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Jan 1, 2007 NEUTRAL
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This randomized animal study tested whether pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF)-induced vibration affects orthodontic tooth movement produced by magnetic and/or mechanical forces. Forty-four Wistar rats were exposed to PEMF-induced vibration or normal atmosphere while tooth movement was induced…
[Acute ear trauma caused by failure of mobile phone/cellular phone].
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Jan 1, 2007 CONCERN
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This case report describes acute acoustic and burn ear trauma associated with an apparent mobile phone failure during use. The patient had an external auditory canal burn and transient hearing loss, with tinnitus that persisted for weeks but resolved by one month. The authors state that the case…
Viability of fungal and actinomycetal spores after microwave radiation of building materials.
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Jan 1, 2007 NEUTRAL
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This laboratory study tested microwave radiation (10 and 60 mW/cm2 for 5, 30, or 60 minutes) on fungal and actinomycetal spores grown on agar and on common building materials under wet and dry humidity conditions. Reported effects on spore viability depended on strain, growth conditions, humidity,…
Development of a patch antenna array RF coil for ultra-high field MRI.
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Jan 1, 2007 NEUTRAL
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This engineering study describes development of a patch antenna array coil (PAAC) intended to address short RF wavelength challenges in ultra-high-field (≥7T) MRI. A prototype PAAC for 7T proton imaging was used to image a monkey brain. The authors report that the imaging demonstrated the coil's…
Dependence of RF heating on SAR and implant position in a 1.5T MR system.
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Jan 1, 2007 CONCERN
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This phantom study measured RF-induced heating of a stainless steel humerus implant during 1.5T MR imaging while varying SAR, implant angle to B0, and implant position in the RF coil. Temperature rise at implant tips increased linearly with SAR, with larger rises when the implant was parallel to…
Chaotic mixing induced by a magnetic chain in a rotating magnetic field.
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Jan 1, 2007 NEUTRAL
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This paper studies chaotic mixing driven by breakup and reformation of a magnetic particle chain under a rotating magnetic field using direct numerical simulation. The authors report that chain motion and the degree of chaos depend strongly on the Mason number, and that a limited Mason number…
Charge and current neutralization of an ion-beam pulse propagating in a background plasma along a solenoidal magnetic field.
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Jan 1, 2007 NEUTRAL
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This paper reports analytical theory on how a small solenoidal magnetic field affects an ion-beam pulse propagating through background plasma. The authors predict enhanced self-electric and self-magnetic fields under a resonance-like condition (omegace ≈ omegape beta_b) attributed to a dynamo…
Polarization reversal in multiferroic TbMnO3 with a rotating magnetic field direction.
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Jan 1, 2007 NEUTRAL
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This Physical Review Letters paper reports a method to reverse electric polarization in multiferroic TbMnO3 using a rotating magnetic-field direction, without applying an electric field or heat. The authors state that the direction of magnetic-field-induced polarization along the a axis is…
Ultranarrow optical absorption and two-phonon excitation spectroscopy of Cu2O paraexcitons in a high magnetic field.
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Jan 1, 2007 NEUTRAL
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This physics study reports ultranarrow optical absorption and two-phonon excitation spectroscopy of Cu2O paraexcitons in a high magnetic field at 1.2 K. A magnetic field enabled observation of an otherwise forbidden paraexciton absorption line and allowed measurement of field-dependent oscillator…
Magnetic field switching between the two orbital-ordered states in DyVO3.
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Jan 1, 2007 NEUTRAL
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This Physical Review Letters study investigates phase competition between spin- and orbital-ordered states in a DyVO3 single crystal. The abstract reports reentrant temperature-driven transitions in spin ordering and orbital ordering. It also reports that an applied magnetic field can switch…
Biased bilayer graphene: semiconductor with a gap tunable by the electric field effect.
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Jan 1, 2007 NEUTRAL
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This paper reports that the electronic gap in bilayer graphene can be controlled externally via a gate bias (electric field effect). Using magnetotransport (Shubnikov-de Haas) data and a tight-binding model, the authors extract the gap as a function of electronic density. They report tuning the…
Sine-Gordon description of Beresinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless vortices in superconductors immersed in an external magnetic field.
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Jan 1, 2007 NEUTRAL
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This theoretical paper investigates Beresinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless vortex physics in two-dimensional superconductors under an external magnetic field using a sine-Gordon field-theory approach. The authors state that the model yields a straightforward definition of field-induced magnetization.…
A mobile clinical e-portfolio for nursing and medical students, using wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs).
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Jan 1, 2006 NEUTRAL
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This paper outlines the development and evaluation of a wireless PDA-based clinical e-portfolio intended to support reflective clinical learning. The tool synchronized wirelessly via cellular signal or Wi-Fi to a web-based portfolio. An evaluation with nurse practitioner and medical students…
Electric field-induced astrocyte alignment directs neurite outgrowth.
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Jan 1, 2006 NEUTRAL
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This in vitro study examined whether astrocyte alignment induced by an applied electric field influences neurite outgrowth. Astrocytes were pre-aligned using a physiological-strength electric field (500 mV mm(-1)), and dorsal root ganglia cells were then seeded onto them. Neurite outgrowth at 24…
The Effectiveness of a Conductive Patch and a Conductive Bed Pad in Reducing Induced Human Body Voltage Via the Application of Earth Ground
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Jan 1, 2005 REASSURANCE
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This engineering-style study measured voltage induced on the human body via capacitive coupling to the environment using a high-impedance measurement head. It then applied earth grounding through a conductive patch and a conductive bed pad. Both grounding methods reportedly reduced coupled 60 Hz…
Mobile phone use and cancer
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Jan 1, 2004 CONCERN
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This narrative review discusses potential public health consequences of widespread mobile phone use and the controversy around long-term cancer risks. It states that evidence from epidemiological and experimental studies suggests long-term exposure to mobile phone emissions may be linked to a…
20 kHz Magnetic Field Emission of Induction Cooking Heaters
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Jan 1, 2004 CONCERN
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This exposure assessment measured 20 kHz magnetic field leakage from induction cooking heaters across four models and compared results with ICNIRP general public limits. The maximum reported magnetic flux density was 16 µT at a specified measurement point using two S-type pans. Field leakage…