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Title: Operations and management of government-owned - contractor-operated microwave exposure facility. Volume 3. Physiological responses evoked in mice by high-power microwave pulses. Final report, 1 March 1985-1 February 1988

Abstract

The investigator's primary objective was to determine whether bursts of narrow-pulse-width, high-intensity microwaves of low average power, would have different effects on the brain than would continuous-wave (CW) exposures yielding equivalent average SAR values. Two rather different approaches for ascertaining the neurophysiological response to patterned (pulsed) microwaves were followed. In one experiment, mice were exposed to single bursts of pulsed microwaves with sufficient energy to produce clear after effects, reduced activity, or hypokinesis. In the other experiment, each mouse was exposed sequentially to various microwave pulse bursts or CW radiation of substantially less energy, and the threshold for evoking motor response (body movements) is ascertained.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
ERCI, Inc., Fairfax, VA (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
6615013
Report Number(s):
AD-A-197116/7/XAB
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: See also Volume 1, AD-A197 114
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; BRAIN; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES; MICE; MICROWAVE EQUIPMENT; PROGRESS REPORT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BODY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DOCUMENT TYPES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; MAMMALS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGANS; PULSES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATIONS; RODENTS; VERTEBRATES; 560400* - Other Environmental Pollutant Effects

Citation Formats

Wachtel, H, Bassen, H, Brown, D, Bates, F, and Gambrill, C. Operations and management of government-owned - contractor-operated microwave exposure facility. Volume 3. Physiological responses evoked in mice by high-power microwave pulses. Final report, 1 March 1985-1 February 1988. United States: N. p., 1988. Web.
Wachtel, H, Bassen, H, Brown, D, Bates, F, & Gambrill, C. Operations and management of government-owned - contractor-operated microwave exposure facility. Volume 3. Physiological responses evoked in mice by high-power microwave pulses. Final report, 1 March 1985-1 February 1988. United States.
Wachtel, H, Bassen, H, Brown, D, Bates, F, and Gambrill, C. 1988. "Operations and management of government-owned - contractor-operated microwave exposure facility. Volume 3. Physiological responses evoked in mice by high-power microwave pulses. Final report, 1 March 1985-1 February 1988". United States.
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title = {Operations and management of government-owned - contractor-operated microwave exposure facility. Volume 3. Physiological responses evoked in mice by high-power microwave pulses. Final report, 1 March 1985-1 February 1988},
author = {Wachtel, H and Bassen, H and Brown, D and Bates, F and Gambrill, C},
abstractNote = {The investigator's primary objective was to determine whether bursts of narrow-pulse-width, high-intensity microwaves of low average power, would have different effects on the brain than would continuous-wave (CW) exposures yielding equivalent average SAR values. Two rather different approaches for ascertaining the neurophysiological response to patterned (pulsed) microwaves were followed. In one experiment, mice were exposed to single bursts of pulsed microwaves with sufficient energy to produce clear after effects, reduced activity, or hypokinesis. In the other experiment, each mouse was exposed sequentially to various microwave pulse bursts or CW radiation of substantially less energy, and the threshold for evoking motor response (body movements) is ascertained.},
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year = {Sun Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 1988},
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