Retinal injury thresholds for blue wavelength lasers

Health Physics

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 477-484

  Lund, David J ^a   Stuck, Bruce E ^a   Edsall, Peter ^b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Lasers; Maximum permissible exposures; Safety standards; Tissue, body

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE BURN; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LASER; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETINA INJURY; RHESUS MONKEY; THERMAL EXPOSURE; TISSUE REACTION; ANIMAL; COLOR; EYE INJURY; INJURY; MACACA; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RETINA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

MACACA MULATTA;

ANIMALS; COLOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EYE INJURIES; LASERS; MACACA MULATTA; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RETINA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33646338616     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000190115.83416.cb     Document Type: Article

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