ABSTRACT
Bioelectromagnetics is a transdisciplinary science integrating different foundational aspects including biophysics, biomedical, and bioengineering in the study of electromagnetic (EM) pathophysiology. This chapter provides state-of-the-art knowledge on several interaction mechanisms of EM fields with biological systems, as reviewed by several authors, that leads to an understanding of the involved bioeffects and health implications to therapy. Health implications are often the result of environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, air velocity, or the result of biological effects that accumulate over time, including age, gender, mass, shape, size, and various properties of the body. Free radicals are atoms or molecules with unpaired electrons, which are very unnatural, unstable, and hazardous because electrons normally come in pairs. Nonthermal effects have been increasingly becoming the norm of the EM research. There are two major parts of the nervous system: the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. Realizing the microdosimetric quantities is significant in understanding and interpreting the interaction mechanisms at cellular level.
