Prolongation of Life During High-Intensity Microwave Exposures

In an attempt to determine whether environmental control would be a feasible and effective tool with which to further investigate microwave bioeffects, we have performed a pilot study. Osborne-Mendel rats were exposed in a Iucite environmental chamber, continually flushed with liquid-nitrogen-cooled air. The results of this study indicate that ambient air temperature control can provide a means for prolonging life in test subjects exposed to high-intensity microwave fields. Dosimetric considerations are presented in an attempt to relate heating curves to exposure conditions.