Thermal modeling of millimeter wave damage to the primate cornea at 35 GHz and 94 GHz

Health Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 764-769

  Foster, Kenneth R ^a   D'Andrea, John A ^b   Chalfin, Steven ^c   Hatcher, Donald J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose, organ; Health effects; Microwaves; Radiation, nonionizing

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA INJURY; HEAT TRANSFER; MACACA; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SLIT LAMP; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL INJURY;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAT; MACACA MULATTA; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0038103472     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200306000-00009     Document Type: Article

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