Experimental radiation cataracts induced by microwave radiation
Russell L. Carpenter, David L. Biddle, B.S., Claire Van Ummersen, B.S., Cayetano P. Vlamalas, M.D., Hal Freeman, M.D. · 1959
Rabbits exposed to 2450 MC continuous-wave radiation developed posterior subcapsular cataracts when vitreous temperature reached about 50°C.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed 56 male New Zealand white rabbits to continuous-wave radiation at 2450 MC with power densities from 0.12 to 0.40 WATTS/CM. Higher power densities required shorter exposure times to induce cataracts, with a six-minute exposure at 0.28 WATTS/CM. being the minimum cataractogenic single exposure. Repeated subthreshold exposures also caused cataracts, with two four-minute exposures two weeks apart proving cataractogenic.
Finding
THE PRELIMINARY SERIES SUGGESTS THE PROBABILITY THAT THE CATARACTOGENIC EFFECT OF MICROWAVE RADIATION AT THIS WAVELENGTH IS NOT PRIMARILY THERMAL.
In their words
“THE PRELIMINARY SERIES SUGGESTS THE PROBABILITY THAT THE CATARACTOGENIC EFFECT OF MICROWAVE RADIATION AT THIS WAVELENGTH IS NOT PRIMARILY THERMAL.”
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@article{experimental_radiation_cataracts_induced_by_microwave_radiation_g3827,
author = {Russell L. Carpenter and David L. Biddle and B.S. and Claire Van Ummersen and B.S. and Cayetano P. Vlamalas and M.D. and Hal Freeman and M.D.},
title = {Experimental radiation cataracts induced by microwave radiation},
year = {1959},
}