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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

A Multi-Band Body-Worn Distributed Radio-Frequency Exposure Meter: Design, On-Body Calibration and Study of Body Morphology.

Reza Aminzadeh, Arno Thielens, Sam Agneessens, Patrick Van Torre, Matthias Van den Bossche, Stefan Dongus, Marloes Eeftens, Anke Huss, Roel Vermeulen, René de Seze and 6 more

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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16 authors.

Reza AminzadehDepartment of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium. reza.aminzadeh@ugent.be.ORCID 0000-0003-2309-6888
Arno ThielensDepartment of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium. arno.thielens@ugent.be.
Sam AgneessensDepartment of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium. sam.agneessens@ugent.be.
Patrick Van TorreDepartment of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium. patrick.vantorre@ugent.be.
Matthias Van den BosscheDepartment of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium. matthias.vandenbossche@ugent.be.
Stefan DongusDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4051 Basel, Switzerland. stefan.dongus@swisstph.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-2761-5596
Marloes EeftensDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4051 Basel, Switzerland. marloes.eeftens@swisstph.ch.
Anke HussInstitute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands. a.huss@uu.nl.
Roel VermeulenInstitute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands. r.c.h.vermeulen@uu.nl.
René de SezeNational Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks (INERIS), Parc Technologique Alata BP2, 60550 Verneuil-en-Halatte, France. rene.de-seze@ineris.fr.
Paul MazetTechnical Center for Mechanical Industries (CETIM), 60300 Senlis, France. paul.mazet@cetim.fr.
Elisabeth CardisBarcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), 08003 Barcelona, Spain. elisabeth.cardis@isglobal.org.
Hendrik RogierDepartment of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium. hendrik.rogier@ugent.be.ORCID 0000-0001-8139-2736
Martin RöösliDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4051 Basel, Switzerland. martin.roosli@swisstph.ch.
Luc MartensDepartment of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium. luc1.martens@ugent.be.
Wout JosephDepartment of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University/imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium. wout.joseph@ugent.be.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A multi-band Body-Worn Distributed exposure Meter (BWDM) calibrated for simultaneous measurement of the incident power density in 11 telecommunication frequency bands, is proposed. The BDWM consists of 22 textile antennas integrated in a garment and is calibrated on six human subjects in an anechoic chamber to assess its measurement uncertainty in terms of 68% confidence interval of the on-body antenna aperture. It is shown that by using multiple antennas in each frequency band, the uncertainty of the BWDM is 22 dB improved with respect to single nodes on the front and back of the torso and variations are decreased to maximum 8.8 dB. Moreover, deploying single antennas for different body morphologies results in a variation up to 9.3 dB, which is reduced to 3.6 dB using multiple antennas for six subjects with various body mass index values. The designed BWDM, has an improved uncertainty of up to 9.6 dB in comparison to commercially available personal exposure meters calibrated on body. As an application, an average incident power density in the range of 26.7-90.8 μW·m - 2 is measured in Ghent, Belgium. The measurements show that commercial personal exposure meters underestimate the actual exposure by a factor of up to 20.6.

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Radio WavesBelgiumCalibrationElectromagnetic FieldsHumansRadiation MonitoringUncertaintybody morphologycalibrationdosimetrymeasurement uncertaintypersonal exposure meterradio frequency

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PMID29346280
PMCPMC5795740

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