Infrastructure and special equipment of Department of Theoretical Methods

Laboratory for Measuring the Effects of Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields

The laboratory is equipped with an original system designed to measure the effects of low-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF) on cellular systems.

Incubation Section: This consists of two thermal boxes with PID temperature control, intended for paired experiments. The section dedicated to generating EMF with selectable frequency and amplitude consists of an Owon XDS3102 signal generator, a Behringer NX3000D digital amplifier, and Helmholtz coils.

Measurement Section: This consists of an impedance spectroscopy station with a ScioSpec ISX-3v2 impedance analyzer, a Kern OCL-2 inverted optical microscope, and a Micronit impedance flow microchip. The impedance spectrometer has two measurement channels with ranges of 1 mΩ – 1 GΩ and 10 mHz – 10 MHz. Using the microchip, it is possible to obtain impedance characteristics of individual cells.