Radio Frequency Radiation Dosimetry and Its Relationship to the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. NATO Involvement in Radio Frequency Radiation (RFR) Research and Health Safety

      • B. J. Klauenberg

      Pages 1-10

   2. United States Air Force Support of Radio Frequency Radiation Health and Safety: Bioeffects, Dosimetry, and Standards

      • M. R. Murphy

      Pages 11-19

   3. International EMF Project

      • M. H. Repacholi

      Pages 21-28

3. Session A: Basics of Electromagnetics and Dosimetry Chair: Y. Grigoriev

   1. Summary of Session A: Basics of Electromagnetics and Dosimetry

      • Y. Grigoriev

      Pages 29-30

   2. Microwave Effect on Embryo Brain: Dose Dependence and the Effect of Modulation

      • Y. Grigoriev, V. Stepanov

      Pages 31-37

   3. Absorption Characteristics and Measurement Concepts

      • W. D. Hurt

      Pages 39-52

   4. Dosimetry and Densitometry of Pulsed Fields

      • D. Šimunić

      Pages 53-62

   5. Biophysics Limits on the Biological Effects of Ultrawideband Electromagnetic Radiation

      • Robert K. Adair

      Pages 63-72

4. Session B: Dielectric Properties of Biological Tissue Chair: C. Gabriel

   1. Summary of Session B: The Dielectric Properties of Tissues

      • C. Gabriel

      Pages 73-74

   2. The Dielectric Properties of Tissues

      • C. Gabriel

      Pages 75-84

   3. Investigations of Tissue Microwave and Thermal Properties for Combined Microwave and Thermal Modelling of Body Tissue Regions

      • D. V. Land, A. J. Gorton, G. Hamilton

      Pages 85-96

   4. Dielectric Properties of Skin

      • T. Lahtinen, J. Nuutinen, E. Alanen

      Pages 97-101

   5. Dielectric Properties of Human Crystalline Lens: Cataractogenic Effects of RFR

      • L. D. Szabó, J. Bakos

      Pages 103-107

5. Session C: Theoretical Dosimetry Chair: O. P. Gandhi

   1. Summary of Session C: Theoretical Dosimetry

      • O. P. Gandhi

      Pages 109-110

   2. Numerical and Experimental Methods for Dosimetry of RF Radiation: Some Recent Results

      • O. P. Gandhi

      Pages 111-121

   3. Electromagnetic Field Calculations in an Anatomically Realistic Voxel Model of the Human Body

      • P. J. Dimbylow

      Pages 123-131

   4. Theoretical Methods of Evaluation of Absorbed Dose of Non-Ionizing Radiation in Nonuniform Media

      • M. L. Rudakov

      Pages 133-140

   5. Recent Advancements in Dosimetry Measurements and Modeling

      • P. A. Mason, J. M. Ziriax, W. D. Hurt, T. J. Walters, K. L. Ryan, D. A. Nelson et al.

      Pages 141-155

6. Session D: Experimental Dosimetry Chair: N. Kuster

   1. Summary of Session D: Experimental Dosimetry

      • N. Kuster, T. J. Walters

      Pages 157-158

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has sponsored research supporting development of personnel safety standards for exposure to Radio Frequency Radiation (RFR) for over a quarter century. NATO previously recognized that one of the most important tools used in the RFR effects research laboratory is accurate dosimetry when it supported a NATO Advanced Studies Institute (ASI) on Advances in Biological Effects and Dosimetry of Low Energy Electromagnetic Fields held in 1981, in Erice, Sicily. That meeting resulted in a NATO ASI publication; Biological Effects and Dosimetry of l Non-ionizing Radiation: Radiofrequency and Microwave Energies . The most recent NATO sponsored program on RFR was an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on "Developing a New Standardization Agreement (STANAG) for Radio frequency Radiation" held May 1993, at the Pratica di Mare Italian Air Force Base, Pomezia (Rome) Italy. That ARW produced an ASI proceedings, published in 1995: Radio frequency Radiation Standards, Biological Effects, Dosimetry, Epidemiology, and Public Health Policy2. The Rome ARW and the Proceedings served as a springboard to the much needed revision of the NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 2345 MED "Evaluation and Control of Personnel Exposure to Radio Frequency Fields - 3 kHz to 300 GHz,,3, which was subsequently promulgated in October 1998. One of the published recommendations developed by the Rome ARW was to hold this second ARW focusing on dosimetry and measurements.

• biological effects
• electromagnetic
• electromagnetic fields
• magnetic fields
• radiation
• radio
• tissue

• Human Effectiveness Directorate, Directed Energy Bioeffects Division, Radio Frequency Radiation Branch, United States Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, USA

  B. Jon Klauenberg

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

  Damijan Miklavčič

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