## Abstract Using biophysical criteria, I show that continuous radiofrequency (RF) and microwave radiation with intensity less than 10 mW/cm^2^ are unlikely to affect physiology significantly through athermal mechanisms. Biological systems are fundamentally noisy on the molecular scale as a consequ
The mechanisms of athermal microwave biological effects
β Scribed by Leonard S. Taylor
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 677 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0197-8462
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
A brief survey of current ideas about the physical mechanisms of lowβlevel millimeter/microwaveβbiological effects is given, and the experimental evidence supporting these ideas is reviewed. The conjectural models do not yet represent a complete physical theory, but they do counter the idea that lowβlevel effects are physically impossible and suggest experiments.
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Microwave exposure under &&athermal'' conditions occurs when no temperature rise can be measured by conventional thermometry. The existence of biological e!ects arising from the athermal exposure is still controversial, partly because of a lack of the linear dose response relation. We propose a mode