The International Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Dosimetry Project was initiated at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Radio Frequency Radiation Dosimetry in Slovenia in 1998. The mission of the project is to promote and develop high quality EMF dosimetry for the assessment of human exposure and for in vitro and in vivo experimental systems. The intention is to create an internationally accepted Dosimetry Handbook which will be a living and substantially on-line document with integrated software tools and guides for dosimetry measurements and calculations. The primary benefactor of this project would be the public health, via assurance of the quality and transportability of human and experimental data; the ability to acquire robust scientific information is dependent upon accurate and precise dosimetry. The previous versions of the handbook, dealing mainly with CW signals, have provided the dosimetric bases of human and experimental RF studies as well as current exposure guidelines. The use of telecommunications technologies, particularly those incorporating pulse-modulated (and in the future ultrawideband) signals, has become more common since the last version of the handbook was published (in 1986). Dosimetry specific to such systems will be a major topic for the International EMF Dosimetry Handbook. The major improvements in computational dosimetry in the last 15 years also indicate that a new Handbook is due. MCL hosts the Handbook's website and co-ordinates the work of the leading international EMF/RF dosimetry experts who will contribute to the writing of the Handbook. Many of these experts attended the Slovenia meeting and have already agreed to participate in the Project if support can be found for its management and administration. Such support has been provided by the UK DTI. Handbook Chapters
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