title: A reverberation chamber for rodents' exposure to wideband radiofrequency electromagnetic fields with different small-scale fading distributions.
abstract: A reverberation chamber (RC) is realized for the rodents' in vivo exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) with various small-scale fading characteristics. Its performance is evaluated to ensure the exposure experiments from 0.85 to 2.60 GHz. By different configurations, line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight exposures can be established. The measured electric field in the RC is analyzed to determine its statistical distribution. We accordingly reconstruct the EMF environment by numerical methods. Simulations are carried to compare the dosimetric variability due to different small-scale fading characteristics. It demonstrates that the surveyed fading distribution will not change the specific absorption rate in the rats. The possibility to reproduce the realistic multi-reflective EMF environment by adjusting the structures of the RC is discussed. It is the first reported in vivo exposure system aiming to provide the EMF exposure with different small-scale fading distributions.
authors.affiliation: a China Academy of Telecommunication Research of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology , Beijing , China and.|b College of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Congsheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: a China Academy of Telecommunication Research of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology , Beijing , China and.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: a China Academy of Telecommunication Research of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology , Beijing , China and.
authors.forename: Bingsong
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: a China Academy of Telecommunication Research of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology , Beijing , China and.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: a China Academy of Telecommunication Research of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology , Beijing , China and.
authors.forename: Tongning
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D065638:Absorption, Radiation; D000818:Animals; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011846:Radio Waves; D051381:Rats; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: In vivo exposure; reverberation chamber; small-scale fading; specific absorption rate