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Use of portable exposure meters for comparing mobile phone base station radiation in different types of areas in the cities of Basel and Amsterdam.

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Urbinello D, Huss A, Beekhuizen J, Vermeulen R, Röösli M. · 2014

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Measurements of mobile phone base station radiation were highly repeatable across days and times, with area type and city explaining most variability.

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Researchers used portable exposure meters to evaluate sources of data variability and repeatability of daily measurements. Exposure from mobile phone base stations ranged from 0.30 to 0.53 V/m in downtown and business areas and from 0.09 to 0.41 V/m in residential areas. Analysis of variance showed measurements were highly reproducible across days, with measurement day explaining 0.6% of variance, measurement time 0.2%, while area type explained 30% and city 50%.

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The authors concluded that mobile monitoring with portable exposure meters is useful because of high repeatability despite high spatial variation. Data were collected between November 2010 and January 2011 in four urban area types in Basel and Amsterdam.

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0.09 to 0.41 V/m

Study Details

Our objective was to evaluate sources of data variability and the repeatability of daily measurements using portable exposure meters (PEMs).

Data were collected at 12 daysq between November 2010 and January 2011 with PEMs in four different t...

Exposure from mobile phone base stations ranged from 0.30 to 0.53 V/m in downtown and business areas...

We conclude that mobile monitoring of exposure from mobile phone base station radiation with PEMs is useful due to the high repeatability of mobile phone base station exposure levels, despite the high spatial variation.

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Urbinello D, Huss A, Beekhuizen J, Vermeulen R, Röösli M. (2014). Use of portable exposure meters for comparing mobile phone base station radiation in different types of areas in the cities of Basel and Amsterdam. Sci Total Environ. 468-469:1028-1033, 2014.
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@article{d_2014_use_of_portable_exposure_1389,
  author = {Urbinello D and Huss A and Beekhuizen J and Vermeulen R and Röösli M.},
  title = {Use of portable exposure meters for comparing mobile phone base station radiation in different types of areas in the cities of Basel and Amsterdam.},
  year = {2014},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24091124/},
}
PubMed: 24091124

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The objective was to evaluate sources of data variability and the repeatability of daily measurements using portable exposure meters.
Exposure from mobile phone base stations ranged from 0.30 to 0.53 V/m in downtown and business areas and from 0.09 to 0.41 V/m in residential areas.
Measurements were highly reproducible across days, with measurement day explaining only 0.6% of variance and measurement time explaining only 0.2%.
Type of area explained 30% of the variability and city explained 50%.
The authors concluded that mobile monitoring of exposure from mobile phone base station radiation with portable exposure meters is useful due to high repeatability despite high spatial variation.