Murbach Manuel, Christopoulou Maria, Crespo-Valero Pedro, Achermann Peter, Kuster Niels
IT'IS Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland.
Bioelectromagnetics. 2012 Sep;33(6):527-33. doi: 10.1002/bem.21710. Epub 2012 Feb 13.
A novel exposure system for double-blind human electromagnetic provocation studies has been developed that satisfies the precision, control of fields and potential artifacts, and provides the flexibility to investigate the response of hypotheses-driven electromagnetic field exposure schemes on brain function, ranging from extremely low frequency (ELF) to radio frequency (RF) fields. The system can provide the same exposure of the lateral cerebral cortex at two different RF frequencies (900 and 2140 MHz) but with different exposure levels at subcortical structures, and also allows uniform ELF magnetic field exposure of the brain. The RF modulation and ELF signal are obtained by a freely programmable arbitrary signal generator allowing a wide range of worst-case exposure scenarios to be simulated, including those caused by wireless devices. The maximum achievable RF exposure is larger than 60 W/kg peak spatial specific absorption rate averaged over 10 g of tissue. The maximum ELF magnetic field exposure of the brain is 800 A/m at 50 Hz with a deviation from uniformity of 8% (SD).
一种用于双盲人体电磁激发研究的新型暴露系统已被开发出来,该系统满足精度要求,能控制场和潜在伪影,并具有灵活性,可研究从极低频(ELF)到射频(RF)场的假设驱动电磁场暴露方案对脑功能的影响。该系统可以在两个不同的射频频率(900和2140兆赫兹)下对大脑外侧皮质进行相同的暴露,但在皮质下结构处具有不同的暴露水平,并且还能对大脑进行均匀的极低频磁场暴露。射频调制和极低频信号由一个可自由编程的任意信号发生器获得,从而能够模拟广泛的最坏情况暴露场景,包括由无线设备引起的场景。在10克组织上平均的最大可实现射频暴露大于60瓦/千克峰值空间比吸收率。大脑的最大极低频磁场暴露在50赫兹时为800安/米,均匀性偏差为8%(标准差)。