Monitoring the Radiation Injury of Red Blood Cells to Micowave Radiation with Different Power Density

Junguang Yong, Ping Ruan, Hongtao Shen

College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China.
Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China.

DOI: 10.4236/eng.2013.510B092                

Abstract

Multiple state-of-the-art techniques, such as multi-dimensional micro-imaging, fast multi-channel micro-spetrophoto-metry, and dynamic micro-imaging analysis, were used to dynamically investigate various effects of cell under the 900MHzelectromagnetic radiation. Cell changes in shape, size under different power density electromagnetic waves radiation were presented in this paper. Experimental results indicated that the isolated human red blood cells (RBCs) do not have obviously real-time responses to the ultra-low density (15 μW/cm2, 31 μW/cm2) electromagnetic wave radiation when the radiation time is not more than 30 minutes; however, the cells do have significant reactions in shape, size to the electromagnetic waves radiation with power densities of 1 mW/cm2and 5 mW/cm2. The data reveals the possible influences and statistical relationships among living human cell functions, radiation amount and exposure time with high-frequency electromagnetic waves. The results of this study may be significant on protection of human being and other living organisms against possible radiation affections of the high-frequency electromagnetic waves.

Keywords

Biomedical Measurement; RBCs; Electromagnetic (EM) Waves; Power Density

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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