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BIOELECTROMAGNETICS
Volume 25, Issue 5, Pages 369-373Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20000
Keywords
50/60 Hz; ELF; contact current; body impedance; exposure assessment
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A portable meter has been developed for measuring low frequency currents that flow in the human body. Although the present version of the meter was specifically designed to measure 50/60 Hz contact currents, the principles involved can be used with other low frequency body currents. Contact currents flow when the human body provides a conductive path between objects in the environment with different electrical potentials. The range of currents the meter detects is approximately 0.4-800 muA. This provides measurements of currents from the threshold of human perception (similar to500 muA (RMS)) down to single microampere levels. The meter has a unique design, which utilizes the human subject's body impedance as the sensing element. Some of the advantages of this approach are high sensitivity, the ability to measure current flow in the majority of the body, and relative insensitivity to the current path connection points. Current measurement accuracy varies with the accuracy of the body impedance (resistance) measurement and different techniques can be used to obtain a desired level of accuracy. Techniques are available to achieve an estimated +/-20% accuracy. (C) 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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