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Differences in energy absorption between heads of adults and children in the near field of sources.
Schonborn F, Burkhardt M, Kuster N · 1998
View Original AbstractChildren's heads absorb similar amounts of cell phone radiation as adults, but this doesn't address whether developing brains are more sensitive.
Plain English Summary
Researchers used computer simulations to compare how much cell phone radiation is absorbed by children's heads versus adults' heads at 900 MHz and 1,800 MHz frequencies. They found no significant differences in radiation absorption between children and adults, contradicting earlier studies that suggested children absorb more radiation. This finding has important implications for safety standards, which are currently based only on adult head models.
Study Details
This paper was motivated by a recent article in which the levels of electromagnetic energy absorbed in the heads of mobile phone users were compared for children and adults at the frequencies of 835 MHz and 1,900 MHz. Significant differences were found, in particular substantially greater absorption in children's heads at 835 MHz. These findings contradict other studies in which no significant changes had been postulated. The clarification of this issue is crucial to the mobile communications industry since current SAR evaluations as required by the FCC are only performed with phantoms based on the heads of adults.
In order to investigate the differences in absorption between adults and children due to their diffe...
These well-defined sources simplified the investigation and facilitated the comparison to previously...
The results revealed no significant differences in the absorption of electromagnetic radiation in the near field of sources between adults and children. The same conclusion holds when children are approximated as scaled adults.
Show BibTeX
@article{f_1998_differences_in_energy_absorption_3378,
author = {Schonborn F and Burkhardt M and Kuster N},
title = {Differences in energy absorption between heads of adults and children in the near field of sources.},
year = {1998},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9450585/},
}