Human body coupling to near field of VHF antennas: An indoor expo-dosimetric survey

A human volunteer study was developed with the scope of analyzing relations between induced foot-current and the characteristics of the incident electromagnetic field (strength, polarization) as well as human body features (posture and anthropometric parameters) in the case of indoor exposure in the near field of a radiator. A survey was worked-out to identify possible rapid predictors of electromagnetically hazardous situations, mainly considering certain rapidly-obtainable parameters of exposure in specific configurations in the proximity of a conical dipole antenna emitting in the (40-110) MHz band. The discussion is conducted with respect to the standard applied to military workplace safety.