Temperature rises in the crystalline lens from focal irradiation

Health Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 214-222

  Okuno, Tsutomu ^a   Kojima, Masami ^b   Hata, Ikuho ^b   Sliney, David H ^c  

^a NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c U S ARMY CENTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health effects; Lasers; Optics; Radiation, nonionizing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAZARD; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENT; IRRADIATION; LENS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETINA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL INJURY;

BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGHT; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

MAXWELLIA;

EID: 13844311102     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000146581.72675.aa     Document Type: Article

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