At 10:44 PM Friday 4/28/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Q. for Dr. Z. or anyone else who may have the necessary expertise:
Is there any way for a subject to use a cell phone while undergoing
a cranial MRI? For that matter, is there any type or frequency of EM
radiation that a cell phone produces which is more powerful than
that which would be experienced by a person undergoing a MRI of
his/her brain? If not, how could any effects be definitively
attributed to the cell phone radiation?
well - your cell phone would immediately be sucked up against the
magnet unless you held on tight. I am not sure if it could work at
all (mine sure doesn't when I am in the MR suite). If it did work it
would probably mess with the MR signal which is after all a
radiofrequency signal.
That was what I thought, but it is nice to have it confirmed by an expert.
>Stough said further, as-yet-unpublished, research by his team suggested
>the impact of mobile phone radiation on the brain was cumulative.
>
>"People, for instance, who use the mobile phone a lot seem to have more
>of an impairment than people who are more naive users," he said.
Once again cumulative effects have to be looked at carefully since
the brain (and any other tissues) will recover from insults.
I am just very skeptical of all this. The radiation from a cell
phone is very weak and it has to penetrate the skin skull (some of
us have thicker skulls than others).
I must be among those born with a thick one, given what I made it
survive when I was younger . . .
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country
and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that
would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
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