ICNIRP International Workshop on EMF Dosimetry and Biophysical Aspects Relevant to Setting Exposure Guidelines
ICNIRP is glad to announce its next public workshop to be held in Berlin, Germany, from 20 to 22 March 2006. The Workshop is organized by ICNIRP and co-sponsored by the German Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) and the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, United States Air Force Research Laboratory (EOARD). The final programme and updates regarding registration and paper submission will be added in the course of January. Meanwhile, if you have any questions please contact us at info@icnirp.org.
The ICNIRP “International Workshop on EMF Dosimetry and Biophysical Aspects Relevant to Setting Exposure Guidelines” will cover the whole frequency range from static fields to terahertz. Invited experts will present lectures on those topics and discuss the relevance of recent research findings with regard to exposure limits for workers and the general public.
Some of the key issues to be discussed include the scientific basis of safety factors for the general public and for specific subgroups (children, elderly persons, pregnant women, etc.), the dosimetric and biophysical comparison of different basic quantities, the questions associated with inhomogeneous or partial body exposure, the concepts for assessing exposure from different sources with the same or different frequencies, considerations on different exposure characteristics (non-sinusoidal, pulsed or intermittent), and the issues of temporal and spatial averaging. Existing standards will be compared and biological effects and epidemiological evidence relevant to developing guidelines will be summarized.
The workshop’s main goal is to provide a forum for experts to discuss in detail the above mentioned key topics. Furthermore, the overview will serve as an input to ICNIRP when the Commission re-evaluates its exposure guidelines.
Conference website: http://www.icnirp.org/dosimetry.htm