Assessment of Children Exposure Variability to Near-Field Sources using Stochastic Dosimetry

In this paper, the exposure of a child to a hairdryer model is evaluated. Nowadays, the assessment of children exposure to near-field sources has become in fact a topic of high interest, because it was found that even domestic appliances could be relevant for children exposure level. Therefore, the aim of the present work is to use a method based on stochastic dosimetry to assess the exposure variability due to near-field sources, not limiting it only on some worst-case exposure scenario. In particular, electric field amplitudes induced in specific tissues composing the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system (following the ICNIRP guidelines) were analyzed. The results highlight a high exposure variability depending on the hairdryer position in respect with the child.