ArticleScience advances2021
Computational modeling investigation of pulsed high peak power microwaves and the potential for traumatic brain injury.
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- Pulsed High-Power Radio Frequency Energy Can Cause Non-Thermal Harmful Effects on the BRAIN.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2024Article
- Pulsed high-power radio frequency energy can cause non-thermal harmful effects on the brain.ArXiv · 2023Article
- In-vivo measurement of radio frequency electric fields in mice brain.Biosensors & bioelectronics: X · 2023Article
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- Can the Microwave Auditory Effect Be "Weaponized"?Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
When considering safety standards for human exposure to radiofrequency (RF) and microwave energy, the dominant concerns pertain to a thermal effect. However, in the case of high-power pulsed RF/microwave energy, a rapid thermal expansion can lead to stress waves within the body. In this study, a computational model is used to estimate the temperature profile in the human brain resulting from exposure to various RF/microwave incident field parameters. The temperatures are subsequently used to simulate the resulting mechanical response of the brain. Our simulations show that, for certain extremely high-power microwave exposures (permissible by current safety standards), very high stresses may occur within the brain that may have implications for neuropathological effects. Although the required power densities are orders of magnitude larger than most real-world exposure conditions, they can be achieved with devices meant to emit high-power electromagnetic pulses in military and research applications.
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