New head exposure system for use in human provocation studies with EEG recording during GSM900- and UMTS-like exposure
| Autor: | Hamid Molla-Djafari, Gernot Schmid, Stefan Cecil, Christoph Goger, Michael Trimmel, Niels Kuster |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Physiology Acoustics Biophysics Electroencephalography Radiation Dosage Sensitivity and Specificity Electromagnetic interference Planar Radiation Monitoring Position (vector) Electric field medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Microwaves Evoked Potentials Electronic filter Physics medicine.diagnostic_test Research Brain Reproducibility of Results Equipment Design General Medicine Equipment Failure Analysis Research Design Body Burden Head (vessel) Female Antenna (radio) Cell Phone Relative Biological Effectiveness |
| Zdroj: | Bioelectromagnetics. 28:636-647 |
| ISSN: | 1521-186X 0197-8462 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/bem.20340 |
| Popis: | A new head exposure system for double blinded human provocation studies, which requires EEG recording during exposure with GSM900- and UMTS-like signals has been developed and dosimetrically evaluated. The system uses planar patch antennas fixed at 65 mm distance from the subject's head by a special headset, which provides minimum impairment of the test subjects and ensures an almost constant position of the antennas with respect to the head, even in case of head movements. Compared to exposure concepts operating small antennas in close proximity to the head, the concept of planar antennas at a certain distance from the head produces a much more homogeneous SAR distribution in the temporal and parietal lobe of the brain. At the same time the resulting uncertainty of exposure due to variations in head size, variations of the dielectric properties of tissues and unavoidable small changes of the antenna's position with respect to the head, is reduced to the order of approximately 3 dB, which is a significant improvement to comparable head exposure systems reported in literature in the past. To avoid electromagnetic interference on the EEG recording caused by the incident RF-field an appropriate double-shielded filter circuit has been developed. Furthermore, the effect of the presence of the sintered Ag/AgCl EEG electrodes and electrode wires on the SAR distribution inside the head has been investigated and was found to be minimal if the electrode wires are arranged orthogonal to the incident electric field vector. EEG electrode arrangement parallel to the incident field vector, however, might cause drastic changes in the SAR distribution inside the head. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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