Subject:  "Head tests" of cell phones (Pritchett).....
Date:     Tue, 3 Aug 1999 230016 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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......Thanks to Robert Pritchett, , for referring
us to the following story in Wired News....  Knowing Dr. Preece as I
do, I am quite sure that this is serious research -- not "macabre."

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
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   Fake Brains a Smart Idea
   by Louise Knapp
   3:00 a.m.  2.Aug.99.PDT
   The idea may seem a bit macabre, but at least nobody's losing his head
   over it.

   Researchers at Britain's Bristol University are using phantom
   heads -- made of real skulls with fake flesh and liquid brains -- to
   analyze how human beings react to high-frequency radio waves.
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   The cell-phone standardization (CEPHOS) heads use modeling clay,
   antifreeze, and an acrylic shell to simulate flesh. The ingredients of
   their liquid brains remain a trade secret.

   MRI images gathered from the tests are compared with tests performed
   on human volunteers. However, the phantom heads allow for specific
   absorption rate measurements that are impossible to conduct on humans.

   Specific absorption can only be measured with electric field probes --
   thermal measurement devices that have to be inserted into skull. An
   Austrian group has done the same type of research with heads removed
   from cadavers.

   The amount of harmful waves emitted from cell phones can differ by as
   much as a factor of 40, said Dr. Alan Preece of Bristol University's
   medical physics research center, in an email. He was unwilling to say
   which models were the worst offenders until after the results are
   released this fall.

   Preece also declined to elaborate on the effects cell phones has on
   brain activity, "I am still working on that," he said.

   But existing research convinced Preece to change his old cell phone to
   a different model with lower emissions, he told The Toronto Star last
   year.

   Results of the current study will be sent to European Union officials
   charged with setting new cell-phone safety standards by the end of the
   year.

   The research was sponsored by Panorama, a news documentary program
   broadcast by the BBC.


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