Life time dosimetric assessment for mice and rats exposed to cell phone radiation: Proceedings of the XXXIst URSI general assembly and scientific symposium to be held in Beijing, China (CIE), August 17–23, 2014

In this paper, we present a detailed life time dosimetry analysis for individually housed rodents exposed to radio frequency (RF) signals. This long term investigation is part of the toxicity and carcinogenicity study on cell phone radiation funded by the National Toxicology Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. We exposed unrestrained rodents in reverberation chambers, which require accurate analysis of the dose as well as the uncertainty and variation due to the exposure environment, animal posture, and differences in the growth rates of individual rodents. For this purpose, six high-resolution anatomical models of rats and mice, plus five posture models of a male rat and male mice, were analyzed, and accurate whole-body and organ-specific specific absorption rates (SAR) were extracted and are reported. These detailed dosimetric results provide a comprehensive reference for studies of long-term biological effects of the exposure of rodents to RF energy.