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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2013.24.2.161

Investigation of the Variation of SAR Values in Mice and Rats Depending on the Exposure Conditions in Whole-Body Exposure Environments  

Mun, Ji-Yeon (Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Seo, Min-Gyeong (Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Kim, Tae-Hong (Department of Mechatronics, GIST)
Pack, Jeong-Ki (Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University)
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Abstract
In animal experiments for EMF exposure, it is very important to estimate the SAR values accurately in animals. In this paper, we investigated the variation of SAR values in mice and rats, depending on the number and separation distance of animals and the existence of the water-supplying bottle. The whole-body of mice or rats in a cage were exposed in the reverberation chamber at CDMA and WCDMA frequencies. Simulation results show that the variation of the whole-body averaged SAR is larger when several animals are exposed in a cage, compared to the existence of water-supplying bottle and the amount of water. It turns out that compared to single mouse or rat is located in the cage, the maximum variation of the whole-body averaged SAR values for mice at 850 MHz and 1,950 MHz are 15.3 % and 14.9 % when three mice are located in the cage, and those for rats are 18.7 % and 21.1 % for each frequency when two rats are located in the cage. It is concluded that the variation of SAR values depending on the exposure conditions in real situation cannot be ignored.
Keywords
SAR; In Vitro; Reverberation Chamber; Whole-Body Exposure; Mouse; Rat;
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