• DOI:10.1038/260153A0
Corpus ID: 4283242

Retinal sensitivity to damage from short wavelength light

@article{Ham1976RetinalST,
  title={Retinal sensitivity to damage from short wavelength light},
  author={W. T. Ham and Harold A. Mueller and D. Sliney},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1976},
  volume={260},
  pages={153-155}
}

• W. T. Ham, Harold A. Mueller, D. Sliney
• Published 1976
• Chemistry, Medicine
• Nature

A GROWING body of literature attests to the deleterious effects of long term exposure to light1–8. To define more critically the differences between thermal and photochemical effects, we have exposed the retinae of rhesus monkeys to eight monochromatic laser lines from 1,064–441.6 nm. Thermal damage to the retina is to be expected for the 1,064-nm line since the photopigments are not involved and energy absorption takes place predominantly in the melanin granules of the pigment epithelium and… Expand

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