DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP OF PHOTOTHERAPY FOR NEONATAL HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA

  • 1 January 1982
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 3  (1) , 1-2
Abstract
The data on the dose-response relationship of [human neonatal] phototherapy published by Tan (1977) were inserted into an e function, with energy in the exponent. No real saturation point was reached when the spontaneous bilirubin decline was also taken into consideration. A direct proportionality became evident between the 2 different, superimposed spectral ranges of irradiance measured and evaluated by Tan. Analogous proportionalities should be calculated for other spectral ranges and for other radiometers to simplify the comparison of irradiance data given by different authors.

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