A sensitive new technique for monitoring the heating of the head caused by mobile phones could be used to account for the effects of radiation on intricate structures such as the eye and the inner ear. Jeroen Van de Kamer and colleagues of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands used ‘quasistatic zooming’ to calculate the absorption of radiation at much higher resolutions than previous studies. They found that some small-scale structures in the head absorb more radiation than conventional methods had indicated (J Van de Kamer and J Lagendijk 2002 Phys. Med. Biol. 47 1827).
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