Kenneth
R. Foster, Ph.D., P.E.
kfoster@seas.upenn.edu
Professor of Bioengineering
and Professor of Electrical Engineering
B.S., Physics, Michigan
State University, 1967
Ph.D., Physics, Indiana University, 1971
Research Interests
My interests relate
to biomedical applications of nonionizing radiation from audio through
microwave frequency ranges, and health and safety aspects of electromagnetic
fields as they interact with the body.
Another and somewhat
broader topic of interest is technological risk, and impact of technology
(principally, electrotechnologies) on humans.
Selected Publications
Books:
Phantom Risk. K. R.
Foster, D. S. Bernstein and P. W. Huber, MIT Press 1993 (hardcover)
1999 (paperback).
Judging Science, K.
R. Foster and P. W. Huber (MIT Press, May 1997) (paperback edition
1999; to be published in Chinese in 2000).
Recent technical
papers:
Heating of cardiovascular
stents in intense radiofrequency magnetic fields. Bioelectromagnetics,
vol. 20, pp.112-116, 1999.
Heating of tissue by
microwaves: a model analysis. Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 19(7),
pp. 420-428, 1998.
Infrared detection of
breast cancer. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Volume
17(6) 10-14, 1998.
Weak electromagnetic
fields and cancer in the context of risk assessment Proceedings
of the IEEE, Vol. 86 (6), pp. 733746, 1997.
Bioengineering
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