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. 2015 May 22;12(5):5634–5656. doi: 10.3390/ijerph120505634

Table 2.

Near-field brain and whole-body SARs, corresponding derivation and references for the near-field predictors.

Near-Field Predictor Brain SAR Whole-Body SAR References
(mW/kg) Derivation (mW/kg) Derivation
GSM 1 mobile phone calls without headset 3.198 0.411 [18]
GSM 1 mobile phone calls with headset 3.198 × 10−3 3.198 × 0.001 0.411 0.411 × 1 [18,20]
UMTS mobile phone calls without headset 0.023 0.003 [18]
UMTS mobile phone calls with headset 0.023 × 10−3 0.023 × 0.001 0.003 0.003 × 1 [18,20]
DECT phone calls without eco mode 0.373 0.051 [18]
DECT phone calls with eco mode 0.0373 0.373 × 0.1 0.0051 0.051 × 0.1 [18,20]
mobile phone data traffic with mobile internet connection 0.092 × 10−3 0.023 × 4 × 0.001 0.012 0.003 × 4 × 1 [18,20,21,22,23,24]
mobile phone close to body (passive mobile phone data traffic) 0.092 × 10−3 0.023 × 4 × 0.001 0.012 0.003 × 4 × 1 [18,20,21,22,23,24]
mobile phone data traffic with WLAN 0.092 × 10−3 0.023 × 4 × 0.001 0.012 0.003 × 4 × 1 [18,20,21,22,23,24]
computer, laptop and tablet use with WLAN 0.092 × 10−3 0.023 × 4 × 0.001 0.012 0.003 × 4 × 1 [18,20,21,22,23,24]

1 For calls with the mobile phone on the GSM network the mean of the SARs for the GSM900 and the GSM1800 network was used because there was no differentiation between GSM900 and GSM1800 network in the mobile phone operator data.