A biological effects exposure facility utilizing an 800 megawatt peak power pulsed microwave source

Author

Bates, F. ; Bassen, H.

Author_Institution

ERC BioServices Corp., Rockville, MD, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

9-12 Nov 1989

Firstpage

1134

Abstract

A whole-body exposure facility has been developed to study the biological effects of pulsed microwave fields with very high peak power and low average power. An experimental high-power microwave transmitter has been adapted to the biological laboratory environment and optimized for bioeffects research. The system provides consistent peak output powers of 800 MW at 3000 MHz. These pulses produce peak exposure power densities of 80 kW/cm² for 30 to 40 ns at a repetition rate of 0.1 to 1 pulses per second, in an anechoic chamber

Keywords

biological effects of microwaves; biological techniques and instruments; health hazards; microwave generation; 30 to 40 ns; 800 MW; anechoic chamber; biological effects; biological laboratory environment; high-power microwave transmitter; low average power; peak exposure power densities; personnel hazards; pulsed microwave source; very high peak power; whole-body exposure facility; Anechoic chambers; Animals; High power microwave generation; Microwave generation; Power generation; Pulse generation; Pulsed power supplies; Radio frequency; Space vector pulse width modulation; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96123

Filename

96123