Paper Info
Title
SAR characterization inside intracranial tumors for case-control epidemiological studies on cellular phones and RF exposure
Abstract
Epidemiological studies investigating whether mobile phone use is related to cancer risk have been conducted in many countries. The purpose of the work reported here was to introduce the dose metric in the exposure assessment, taking into account the spatial distribution of exposure. Distributions of specific absorption rate (SAR) inside 275 cases of brain tumors (participants in the Japanese epidemiological study) were estimated. Phones had been classified into four categories based on SAR distributions and technical specifications. Results were found to be highly dependent on phone categories. Contralateral tumors were generally categorized as non-exposed tumors (max SAR <2.5% of max SAR in the brain) and, for any phone category, the maximum SAR in 75% of the ipsilateral tumors was less than 15% of the maximum SAR in the brain. Three new exposure indices combining the duration and strength of exposure were created to be used in the Japanese epidemiological study on mobile phone use and the risk of gliomas and meningiomas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/s12243-007-0009-y
Annales des Télécommunications
Keywords
Field
DocType
sar characterization.mobile phones. epidemiological study.brain tumors.rf exposure. cancer risk,specific absorption rate,exposure assessment
Exposure assessment,Specific absorption rate,Cellular radio,Telecommunications,Technical specifications,Epidemiology,Electronic engineering,Phone,Mobile phone,Mathematics,Cartography
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
63
1-2
1958-9395
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nadège Varsier121.04
Kanako Wake224.97
Masao Taki332.51
Soichi Watanabe41315.03
Toru Takebayashi500.34
N Yamaguchi611.36
Yuriko Kikuchi700.34