unborn baby/pregnant mother/strayfiled

From: Zhe (Frank) Zhou <"Zhe>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:27:25 -0600

I received an email from Mr. Razvan Teodorescu, the magnets R&D manager of
Bruker on August 21, 2000. The following is his email.

Frank

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 Zhe (Frank) Zhou, Ph.D.
 Co-Director of NMR Research Center
 College of Basic Sciences, Louisiana State University
 Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
 Email: zzhou1_at_lsu.edu
 Office: (225)-578-3460
 Fax: (225)-578-3458
 http://www.chem.lsu.edu/htdocs/people/fzhou/nmrweb/11.htm
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Dear Dr. Zhou
I am following-up on our phone conversation, and confirm in writing what we
already have discussed.
The same question concerning possible effects of stray magnetic fields on
the unborn baby or/and pregnant mother were raised before. In that
particular case it was someone who was working with the actual NMR
spectrometer and was coming much closer to the magnet than the 5G line. We
have forward the enquiry to our colleagues in Switzerland at that time who
responded as follows:
“… It is clear that when tuning or matching the instrument, or while
changing samples, the NMR operator will be very near to the magnet and be in
the region where the magnetic strayfield is the highest. But even the
highest strayfield value generated by the systems (300 KHz, 400 MHz, 500MHz)
is still harmless from the biological and medical point of view.
There will be no detrimental effect to the health of the baby due to the
magnetic filed, when working with our NMR magnet systems, be it while
changing samples, or tuning and matching the instrument.
We checked with our Medical Application Department to be totally sure, and
we can assure that the strayfiled level is so that it will have absolutely
no influence on the pregnancy…”
I am hoping this information will be helpful.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
Best regards,

Received on Fri Jan 11 2002 - 18:42:23 MST