Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory - Facilities

in vitro studies

The Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory equipped with an Optiscan F900e Fibre Optic Confocal Microscope and an Olympus epi-fluorescence/DIC Microscope. In addition, the Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory also equipped with cell cultures facilities. Therefore, we are expertise in cell morphology, live cells/tissues imaging, detecting GFP expression in cells/tissues and 3D images reconstruction.

Human volunteer studies

These studies are carried out in collaboration with the Swinburne Centre for Neuropsychology, the Brain Sciences Institute and with Mitcham Private Hospital , Melbourne .

The possible effects of mobile radiation on human cognitive function and sleep patterns use standard Nokia mobile phones together with software supplied by the manufacturers which is used to set the phones in a standard pattern of emission of electromagnetic energy. In phones in normal use this emission rises and falls depending on the proximity to a phone base station and whether the user is talking or listening.

Cognitive function is measured using a NeuroscanT 64-channel electrophysiological workstation. Sleep parameters are recorded using the Compumedics E-series system. This consists of up to 15 channels of up to 500 samples/sec acquisition rate. Complete overnight data is stored on CD ROM in portable EDF format. Additional analysis is carried out using MatlabT.

Modelling studies

Modelling of induced electrical currents at radiofrequencies, terahertz frequencies and at ELF is carried out using Max-1T. The Max-1 platform (available from J Wiley, Chichester , UK ) provides a number of solvers using numeric, semi-analytic and analytic methods to solve electromagnetic problems. Advanced tools allow visualisation of field solutions such as vector plots and animation to enhance understanding of the solution. The three componesnt of this platform are: Generalised Finite Difference (GFD) (2-D and 3-D) scheme; Multiple Multipole Program (MMP) scheme and formula interprester scheme for analytic solutions.

This platform is augmented by MatlabT

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