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The ideal dosimeter to support health and safety monitoring and epidemiological studies to determine if any long term chronic effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation exist would be a personal one. Such a dosimeter would measure the actual dose received by an individual at risk. It would have to take into account whole body average and local exposures and in itself minimally perturb the exposure being assessed. Furthermore, the dosimeter would have to measure an effective dose in a way that was very sensitive to potential biological effect mechanisms. Preferably, the dosimeter would have to be responsive without restrictions of geometry, that is, it would have to respond at the molecular level as if it were in an infinite volume. Its response would be determined by its location on the person being assessed, that is, the human’s geometry rather than the dosimeter’s.
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Kiel, J.L. (2000). Molecular Dosimetry. In: Klauenberg, B.J., Miklavčič, D. (eds) Radio Frequency Radiation Dosimetry and Its Relationship to the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields. NATO Science Series, vol 82. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4191-8_25
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