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A. BENEDICT RIZZUTI, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1950;43(2):365-369.

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HIGH speed photography affords the use of a new technic in photographing the external eye. The essential feature of the unit consists of an electrical flash tube developed by Edgerton.¹ The illumination afforded is extremely brilliant (about 42,000,000 lumens) and of very short duration (0.001 second) and produces no discomfort to the patient. From a single tube 10,000 or more light flashes can be obtained. There is no appreciable sense of heat to the patient, even when the light is placed as close as 4 inches (10 cm.) from the eye. The after-image produced is inconsequential.

A slender glass tube measuring about 3 inches (7.5 cm.) in height and filled with xenon gas is used. When the electric charge is released from a power pack, ionization of the gas results and a brilliant flash is produced. The quality of the light is uniform and substantially correct for daylight color . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Assistant Surgeon in Ophthalmology, Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital BROOKLYN

Footnotes
Presented at a meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine, Section of Ophthalmology, Jan. 17, 1949.

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