THE OCULAR EFFECTS OF MICROWAVES ON HYPOTHERMIC RABBITS: A STUDY OF MICROWAVE CATARACTOGENIC MECHANISMS*

1 February 1975

journal article
Published by Wiley in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Vol. 247 (1) , 155-165
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1975.tb35992.x

Abstract

Rabbits, irradiated by known cataractogenic levels of 2.45 GHz radiation at 5 cm, did not develop cataracts if kept under general hypothermia. Radiation-induced temperature elevation appears to be essential for the cataractogenic effect of microwaves.

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