MTHR - Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research

Abstracts or proceedings of scientific conferences

The first presentation of research findings often occurs at scientific conferences. The main purpose of such presentations is to encourage constructive discussion with other scientists and the data presented may be preliminary or incomplete. The material to be presented may be published as an abstract or as a longer paper in conference proceedings. However, neither form of publication will be as detailed or subject to the same rigorous peer review process as a full paper in a scientific journal. Conference abstracts or proceedings should be regarded as preliminary and the material contained in them should therefore be viewed with a degree of caution.

This page lists the conference abstracts and proceedings papers that have been notified to the Programme by Principal Investigators. The MTHR Programme Management Committee (PMC) strongly encourages all researchers funded by the Programme to publish in peer-reviewed journals at the earliest opportunity and a list of such publications is available on this site.

Once work has been fully published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature full Final Reports are published on this web site.

Epidemiology

Beale L, (2004). GIS methods – use and misuse. 2004 National Environmental Public Health Tracking Conference, March 24-26, Philadelphia.

Beale L, Briggs D, Elliot P, Little M, (2004). GIS exposure modelling: Mobile masts in England and Wales. Presentation to X2004 Conference: Exposure Assessment in a Changing Environment, Utretch, June.

Briggs D, Toledano M, Best N, Beale L, Morris C, Elliott P (2006). Case control study of cancer incidence in early childhood and proximity to mobile phone base stations: estimates of exposure. Paris, 2-6 September 2006.

Volunteer

Barker, AT, Jackson P R, Coulton LA., Cook GG and Parry H (2006). The Sheffield mobile phone blood pressure/cardiovascular study. BEMS 28th Annual Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, June 2006.

Barnett J (2005). Different methods, different stories: making sense of public understandings of precaution. Centre for Environmental Risk, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK April 2005.

Barnett J (2005). Mobile Operators Association/Community Liaison Officers meeting, Birmingham, UK June 2005.

Barnett J, Timotijevic L, Shepherd R, Senior V, Vincent J (2005). Understanding public responses to precautionary action and advice. WHO Workshop on Base stations & Wireless Networks: Exposures & Health Consequences, 15-16 June 2005. Published proceedings.

Barnett J, Timotijevic L, Shepherd R, Senior V, Vincent J (2005). Public responses to precautionary action and advice: a UK perspective. International Society of Risk Analysis Conference, USA, December 2005.

Barnett J, Timotijevic L, Shepherd R, Senior V, and Vincent J, (2006): Understanding of the precautionary principle: “No smoke without fire” or “Better safe than sorry”? IN De Pozo C, Papameletiou D, Weidemann P, and Ravazzani P (eds). Risk Perception and Risk Communication: Tools, Experiences and Strategies in Electromagnetic Fields Exposure. Proceedings of JRC/EIS-EMF Risk Perception and Communication Workshop, ISPRA, July 2004.

Barnett J, Timotijevic L, Shepherd R, Senior V, and Vincent J (2005). Communicating uncertainty: mobile telecommunication health risks. 'Mobile Health and the Environment 2005' Conference, London, March 2005.

Barnett J, Timotijevic L, Shepherd R, Senior V, and Vincent J (2005). Understanding public responses to precautionary action and advice. SRA Conference, 2005.

Burns P C, Parkes A M, and Lansdown T C (2003). Conversations in cars: relative hazards of mobile phones. (TP0079) International Ergonomics Association XVth. Triennial World Congress, Seoul Korea. Aug. 25-29.

Ceranic B, (2002). Effects of mobile phones on hearing. Deafness Genetics Workshop, Institute of Child Health, London, 18 June.

Cox R (2004). Electrical hypersensitivity - human studies in the UK. WHO International Seminar and Working Group meeting on EMF Hypersensitivity,Prague, Czech Republic, October 2004.

Luxon L, Ceranic B, Cox R, and Chadwick P, (2003). Study to evaluate the effects of mobile telephone usage on labyrinthine function. IN Abstracts EBEA 2003 6th International Congress of the European Bioelectromagnetics Association (EBEA) 13-15 November, Budapest, Hungary.

Parkes A M, And Burns P C, (2004). Mobile phones and car driving: cause for concern or action? Behavioural Research in Road Safety: Fourteenth Seminar. Department for Transport.

Russso R (2005). Does acute exposure to mobile phones affect human attention? American Psychological Association convention, Washington 18-21 August 2005.

Shepherd R, Barnett J, Timotijevic L and Senior V, (2004). Communicating uncertainty about mobile telecommunication health risk. Second Mobile Communications Seminar, Brussels, 23-24 September.

Smith R, Luke T, Parkes A M, Burns P C and Landsdown T C, (2004). A study of driver visual behaviour whilst conversing with passengers and on mobile phones. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society European Chapter Conference, October 27-29 Delft, Netherlands CD Rom.

Mechanisms

Ahmed I, Excell, P S and Abd-Alhameed, R A (2005). Is a rectifying junction essential for demodulation of modulated waveforms in tissue? BioEM 2005 Bioelectromagnetics 2005, Dublin, pp. 289-290.

Blackwell R P, Addison D, Bottomley A L and Sienkiewicz Z J (2004). A novel head-only RF exposure system for mice. Bioelectromagnetics Society Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 2004.

Bottomley A L, Bartram R, Blackwell R P, Haylock R G E and Sienkiewicz Z J, (2004). Effects of head-only exposure to radiofrequency fields on learned behaviour in mice. Bioelectromagnetics Society Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 2004.

Bottomley A, Jones N, Haylock R G E, Saunders R D, Kuster N and Sienkiewicz Z J (2005). Effects of exposure to RF fields on spatial learning processes in mice. BioEM 2005 Bioelectromagnetics 2005, Dublin.

de Pomerai D, Dawe A, Smith B, Vasic N, Thomas D, Loader B and Gregory A (2004). Nematode heat-shock responses to electromagnetic fields: what is the underlying mechanism? Proceedings, 3rd International Workshop on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, Kos, Greece, 4-8 Oct.

See C H, Abd-Alhameed R A, and Excell P S (2005).‘Biological cell modelling using quasi-lumped-element FDTD method. BioEM 2005 Bioelectromagnetics 2005, Dublin, pp. 552-555.

See C H, Abd-Alhameed R A, and Excell P S (2005). Simulation of electromagnetics of biological cells using time-domain floquet boundary conditions and quasi-static FDTD. Electromagnetic Compatibility Europe Conference, Rome 2005.

See C H, Abd-Alhameed R A, and Excell P S (2005). Computational modelling of electromagnetics of biological cells using lumped elements in quasi-static FDTD. Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine annual meeting, Glasgow, September 2005.

See C H, Abd-Alhameed R A, and Excell P S (2005). Electromagnetic modelling of biological cells using lumped element-FDTD. International Union of Radio Science, General Assembly, Delhi 2005.

Smith A J, Harrison P K, Underwood G, Mifsud N C D and Tattersall J E H (2005). Electrophysiological properties of hippocampal slices from mice exposed to electromagnetic fields. BioEM 2005 Bioelectromagnetics 2005, Dublin.

Tattersall J E H, Smith A J, Harrison P K, Underwood G, Uney J B, Hobson R J, Bottomley A L, Bartram R and Sienkiewicz Z J, (2004). The effects of radiofrequency radiation on brain physiology and function: a study in mice. BioEM 2005 Bioelectromagnetics 2005, Dublin.

Dosimetry

Clarke R (2003) Traceable calibration of field strength probes for specific absorption rate measurements. RF Interactions with Humans, IoP, London, 27 – 28 February.

Faraci F D, (2003). Interaction of emerging mobile telecommunication systems with the human body. EMC York 2003 Conference Proceedings, University of York, 1 July.

Faraci F D, (2003). Interaction of emerging mobile telecommunication systems with the human body. National URSI Symposium, University of Leeds, 7-8 July. Paper K2.

Faraci F D, Porter S J, Capstick M H, Flintoft I D, Marvin A C (2004). Efficient modelling of antennas for exposure assessment of devices used in close proximity to the human body. 3rd International Workshop on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, Kos, Greece, 4-8 October, Paper number A3:1

Faraci F D, Porter S J, Flintoft I D and Marvin A C (2003). Interaction of emerging mobile telecommunication systems with the human body. 8th IEEE High Frequency Postgraduate Student Colloquium, HFPSC2003, Belfast, 8-9 September pp. 19-22.

Flintoft I D, Porter S J, Capstic M H and Marvin A C (2002). RF exposure assessment for emerging technologies. EMC Europe 2002, International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Sorrento, 9-13 September pp.473-478.

Loader B, Lees K, and Clarke, R N (2002). Calibration of implantable field probes for specific absorption rate measurements at TETRA frequencies (380 MHz to 460 MHz) in waveguide cells. Antenna measurements and SAR conference, University of Loughborough, May 2002.

Loader B G (2006). Dosimetry for the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) Programme. Biological Effects of EMFs, 4th International Workshop, Limin Hersonissou, Crete, Greece, 16-20 October 2006.

Mann S, (2005). Laboratory and volunteer trials of an RF personal dosimeter, WHO base stations meeting, 15-16 July 2005.

Peyman A, Holden S, Watts S, Perrot R and Gabriel C, (2004). Study of the dielectric properties of porcine head and neck tissue at microwave frequencies. Bioelectromagnetics Society Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 2004.

Peyman A, Holden S, Watts S, Perrot R and Gabriel C, (2004). Dielectric properties of porcine abdominal tissues and body fluids at microwave frequencies. Bioelectromagnetics Society Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 2004.

Peyman A, Holden S, Watts S, Perrott R and C. Gabriel (2004). A comprehensive study of dielectric properties of porcine head and neck tissues at microwave frequencies. The Fourth World Congress on Microwave and Radio Frequency Applications.

Porter S J, Capstick M H, Faraci F, Flintoft I D and Marvin A C (2004). SAR and current measurements on wired hands-free mobile telephones. AMS 2004, IEE Technical Seminar on Antenna Measurements and SAR, University of Loughborough, 25-26 May.

Porter S J, Capstick M H, Faraci F, Flintoft I D and Marvin A C (2004). SAR associated with the use of hands-free mobile telephones. EMC Europe 2004, International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatability, Eindhoven 6 - 10 September.