EXPERIMENTAL RADIATION CATARACT
- 1 November 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Ophthalmology
- Vol. 50 (5) , 597-602
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1953.00920030607006
Abstract
IN PREVIOUS reports of this series1describing the ocular events in rabbit eyes following exposure to x-rays and neutrons, abnormalities in the lenses were unexpectedly found at the lowest dose levels used (250 r for x-rays and 1.0 X 109neutrons/cm.2). It is the purpose of this communication to report the effects on the lenses of rabbits of a single exposure to x-rays and to neutrons at lower dose levels and to present a calculation of the energy released in the lens with exposure to comparable cataractogenic doses of x-rays and of neutrons. At the outset the difficulties inherent in determining a threshold level may be mentioned. Thus, if no opacification of the lens occurs with a given amount of radiation, the objection may legitimately be raised that the observations have not been followed over a sufficiently long period; it is well known that the lower theKeywords
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- CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RADIATION CATARACTArchives of Ophthalmology (1950), 1952