Environmental and Work Health Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Service Risk and Health Impact Assessment, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Environ Res. 2020 May;184:109387. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109387. Epub 2020 Mar 12.
Biological effects have been reproducibly reported in rodents exposed to radiofrequency fields (RF) without significant change of the body temperature. These observations relaunch the controversial question of non-thermal effects of RF. If true, such effects would imply to consider RF energy absorption/interaction in tissues, not as volume-averaged, but locally down to the microscale, which is of potential consequence in particular at frequencies beyond 3 GHz. We propose study protocols to explore that question.
在不显著改变体温的情况下,已有研究在暴露于射频场(RF)的啮齿动物中重现了生物效应。这些观察结果重新引发了关于 RF 非热效应的争议性问题。如果这些效应是真实存在的,那么这意味着需要考虑组织中 RF 能量的吸收/相互作用,而不是以体积平均值来考虑,而是局部到微尺度,这在频率超过 3GHz 时尤其具有潜在影响。我们提出了研究方案来探索这个问题。