• DocumentCode
    1940825
  • Title

    1.8 GHz Radio Frequency signal radiation effects on human health

  • Author

    Ahmad, Azizah ; Ariffin, Rusnani ; Noor, Norhayati Mohd ; Sagiruddin, Meor Adzmey

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknol. MARA, Permatang Pauh, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    25-27 Nov. 2011
  • Firstpage
    546
  • Lastpage
    550
  • Abstract
    Radio Frequency (RF) radiation effects are strictly relying on few critical factors, ie frequency, period of exposure and distance. Certain frequency ranges are absorbed in body tissue more than the other frequency range. The second factor is the duration of exposure. Where, over the period of time, the body will absorb more RF frequencies which hence will worsened the human tissue. The third factor is the distance of radiating elements from the human body. Hence, with respect to that unawareness of human towards the effects of the RF exposure, this project is carried out to simulate the base station radiation effects on human health. The experiments was conducted using mice as it has the closest DNA structure to human and the frequency used in the experiments was 1.8 GHz (i.e. GSM frequency). The mice were exposed at 1.8 GHz frequency, certain level of intensity and over a period of time. After certain duration, the mice were examined for its cellular changes. Second test conducted was the histopathology to examine the tissue of the mice out from the autopsy. The third test was the blood count on red blood cells, white blood cells, hemoglobin and packed cell volume. From the tests which are conducted at veterinar Lab, there are evidences of degeneration of cells in some organs through histopathological procedures. While in through biochemistry test, the level of blood calcium and phosphorus were decreasing and the level of blood creatinine was increasing. All this evidences show that, exposure to certaion level of frequencies will affect human body.
  • Keywords
    biological effects of radiation; cellular radio; DNA structure; RF radiation; base station radiation; bio¬ chemistry test; blood calcium; blood creatinine; frequency 1.8 GHz; hemoglobin; human health; human tissue; packed cell volume; phosphorus; radio frequency signal radiation; red blood cells; white blood cells; Base stations; Blood; Electromagnetic fields; Humans; Mice; Radio frequency; Radiation; electromagnetic field; human health; radio frequency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Control System, Computing and Engineering (ICCSCE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Penang
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1640-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCSCE.2011.6190586
  • Filename
    6190586