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Absence of ocular effects after either single or repeated exposure to 10 mW/cm(2) from a 60 GHz CW source.

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Kues HA, D'Anna SA, Osiander R, Green WR, Monahan JC · 1999

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High-level 60 GHz exposure caused no detectable eye damage in animals, but only immediate structural damage was assessed.

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Researchers exposed rabbits and monkeys to 60 GHz millimeter wave radiation at 10 mW/cm² for either 8 hours straight or 4 hours daily for five days, then examined their eyes for damage using microscopes. They found no detectable eye damage from either exposure pattern. This suggests that millimeter wave radiation at this power level doesn't cause immediate eye injury in laboratory animals.

Study Details

This study was designed to examine ocular effects associated with exposure to millimeter waves (60 GHz).

Rabbits served as the primary experimental subjects. To confirm the results of the rabbit experiment...

Neither microscopic examinations nor the diagnostic procedures performed on the eyes of acute and re...

On the basis of our results, we conclude that single or repeated exposure to 60 GHz CW radiation at 10 mW/cm(2) does not result in any detectable ocular damage.

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Kues HA, D'Anna SA, Osiander R, Green WR, Monahan JC (1999). Absence of ocular effects after either single or repeated exposure to 10 mW/cm(2) from a 60 GHz CW source. Bioelectromagnetics 20(8):463-473, 1999.
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@article{ha_1999_absence_of_ocular_effects_3159,
  author = {Kues HA and D'Anna SA and Osiander R and Green WR and Monahan JC},
  title = {Absence of ocular effects after either single or repeated exposure to 10 mW/cm(2) from a 60 GHz CW source.},
  year = {1999},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10559768/},
}

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Researchers exposed rabbits and monkeys to 60 GHz millimeter wave radiation at 10 mW/cm² for either 8 hours straight or 4 hours daily for five days, then examined their eyes for damage using microscopes. They found no detectable eye damage from either exposure pattern. This suggests that millimeter wave radiation at this power level doesn't cause immediate eye injury in laboratory animals.