Fields and currents in the organs of the human body when exposed to power lines and VLF transmitters.

Abstract

A study is made of the electric fields and currents induced in the organs of the human body when exposed to high-voltage 50-60-Hz transmission lines and 10-30-kHz high-power transmitters. Relevant analyses previously carried out are summarized and supplemented with detailed investigations that complete the picture. Incomplete, misleading, and incorrect statements and methods in the related literature are pointed out, completed, and corrected. The major contribution is to provide quantitatively accurate, relatively simple analytic formulas that relate the incident electric field to the induced field in the organs of the body. The formulation and solution of the underlying integral equation are carried out in the Appendix.