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The explosive increase in the use of hand-held mobile phones during the last few years has aroused suspicions about their adverse effects on users’ health. Cellular phones are held in the close proximity to the head when in use, and part of the power radiated by the antenna is absorbed by the head. Hence, it is intelligible that there are concerns on possible hazardous consequences especially on the brain and the eyes. Well-known thermal effects of radio frequency (RF) fields are produced by tissue heating processes. The RF power emitted by cellular phones is, however, too small to cause significant warming of absorbing tissues1.
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Hietanen, M., Kovala, T., Hämäläinen, AM., Velin, R., von Nandelstadh, P. (1999). EEG Activity of the Human Brain During Exposure to Cellular Phones. In: Bersani, F. (eds) Electricity and Magnetism in Biology and Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4867-6_175
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