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Variation of the dielectric properties of tissues with age: the effect on the values of SAR in children when exposed to walkie-talkie devices.

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Peyman A, Gabriel C, Grant EH, Vermeeren G, Martens L · 2009

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Children and adults absorb similar radiation levels from walkie-talkies despite age-related tissue changes, but this doesn't address other childhood vulnerabilities.

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Researchers measured how tissue properties change with age in pigs and used this data to calculate radiation absorption (SAR) in children using walkie-talkies. They found that while tissue properties do change significantly with age - mainly due to decreasing water content - these changes don't meaningfully affect how much radiation children absorb compared to adults when using walkie-talkie devices.

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In vitro dielectric properties of ageing porcine tissues were measured in the frequency range of 50 MHz-20 GHz, and the total combined uncertainties of the measurements were assessed.

The results show statistically significant reduction with age in both permittivity and conductivity...

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Peyman A, Gabriel C, Grant EH, Vermeeren G, Martens L (2009). Variation of the dielectric properties of tissues with age: the effect on the values of SAR in children when exposed to walkie-talkie devices. Phys Med Biol. 54(2):227-241, 2009.
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@article{a_2009_variation_of_the_dielectric_3304,
  author = {Peyman A and Gabriel C and Grant EH and Vermeeren G and Martens L},
  title = {Variation of the dielectric properties of tissues with age: the effect on the values of SAR in children when exposed to walkie-talkie devices.},
  year = {2009},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19088390/},
}

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Researchers measured how tissue properties change with age in pigs and used this data to calculate radiation absorption (SAR) in children using walkie-talkies. They found that while tissue properties do change significantly with age - mainly due to decreasing water content - these changes don't meaningfully affect how much radiation children absorb compared to adults when using walkie-talkie devices.