Commission K


2002-2005 Triennium Report

In the last three years, Commission K has been very active in publishing articles in the RSB, sponsoring and organising scientific meetings and preparing for the General Assembly of Delhi (6 specific sessions and 3 shared sessions). It also shared the preparation of the white paper on SPS (Prof. J. Lin).

Several small meetings of national representatives of Commission K were organised during the scientific meetings of BEMS and EBEA.

A close relationship was kept with WHO and in particular with the International EMF project as part of the liaison activity of Commission K within the SCT.

Radio Science Bulletin

The following papers have been edited by vice-chairman F. Prato and published in RSB:

  1. Naomi M Shupak, Frank S Prato, Alex W Thomas. Therapeutic Uses of Pulsed Magnetic-Field Exposure: A Review. Dec 2003. 9-32
  2. Stefan Engstrom. Physical Mechanisms of Non-Thermal Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic-Field Effects. Dec 2004. 95-106

The following paper has been edited and will be published soon in RSB:

  1. Anders Ahlbom, Maria Feychting, Stefan Lönn. Mobile phones and tumor risk: Interpretation of recent results.

The following manuscript will be submitted in September 2005:

  1. James Lin. Review on BBB permeability and exposure to ELF and RF.

 

Scientific Meetings

The following meetings have been sponsored by Commission K:

  1. EMF and Cardiac Pacemakers and Defibrillators, Paris, France, 25 October 2002.
  2. JINA 2002, Nice, France, 12-14 November 2002.
  3. APMC'02: Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 19-22 November 2002.
  4. EMC Zurich 2003, Zurich, Switzerland, 18-20 February 2003.
  5. ISMOT 2003 - 9th Int. Symp. On Microwave and Optical Technology, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 11-15 August 2003.
  6. International NIR Workshop and Symposium, ICNIRP/URSI(K)/WHO, Seville, Spain, 20-24 May 2004.
  7. MSMW'04, Fifth Int. Kharkov Symposium on Physics and Eng of Microwaves, mm and Submm Waves, Kharkov, Ukraine, 21-26 June 2004.
  8. EMC Wroclaw 2004, Wroclaw, Poland, 29 June - 1 July 2004
  9. AP-RASC 04: 2004 Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, Beijing, China, 20-23 August 2004.
  10. Radar 2004, Toulouse, France, 19 - 21 October 2004.
  11. JINA-04, Nice, France, 8-10 November 2004.
  12. EMC Zurich 2005, Zurich, Switzerland, 15-17 February 2005.
  13. CEFBIOS 2005 - Coherence and electromagnetic fields in biological systems, Prague, Czech Republic, 1-4 July 2005.
  14. ISMOT 2005 - 10th International Symposium on Microwave and Optical Technology, Fukuoka, Japan, 22-25 August 2005.
  15. International Workshop on Electromagnetic Fields at the Workplaces, Warsaw, Poland, 5-7 September 2005.

All of the funds available to Commission K went into the organisation of the Symposium held jointly with ICNIRP and WHO. It gathered more that 250 participants from all over the world and was a major success in terms of attendance (more that 250 participants) and scientific quality. One of the main contributions of Commission K was to organise the sessions on medical applications and on MRI and TMS.