ABSTRACT
Bioelectromagnetics is a highly interdisciplinary field since it studies the interactions of all types of electromagnetic fields with various types of biological systems. A lack of reproducibility of many results in bioelectromagnetics research has been a problem, especially for small effects presumably caused by exposure to low-intensity fields. The goal of this chapter is to point out some features common to a good bioelectromagnetics experiment that have often have been overlooked. These omissions often occur because, in common with any interdisciplinary area of study, each of the participating specialties and subspecialties has its own terminology, techniques, ways of experimentation, and pitfalls that are not well-understood outside that discipline. In bioelectromagnetics, "dosimetry" generally means characterizing the fields and other conditions of an experiment. The chapter collects ways one experiment may inadvertently differ from another and/or suggests ways to reduce or eliminate the differences.
