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Rate of Blood Flow and Its Effect on Chorioretinal BurnsPreliminary Report
WALTER J. GEERAETS, M.D.;
RAY C. WILLIAMS;
WILLIAM T. HAM, Jr., Ph.D.;
DUPONT GUERRY III, M.D.
Arch Ophthalmol. 1962;68(1):58-61.
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In previous articles1,2 the authors have discussed the spectral absorption characteristics of human and rabbit eyes. The distribution of energy, absorbed by the different fundus pigments has been determined for light of uniform intensity, for the XBO 2001 Xenon high pressure lamp as used in the Zeiss light coagulator, and for radiant energy emitted by a black body at 5,600 K. In the present paper the role of blood flow in retinal burn production is reported.
The influence of blood flow on the production of fundus threshold burns was studied in the rabbit fundus by comparing the amount of energy necessary to produce threshold lesions before and immediately after the animals were killed. Since the required energy for the production of such lesions depends, in part, on the retinal image size, this factor was kept constant throughout the experiment.
Methods and Materials
Variation due to differences in fundus pigmentation
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Author Affiliations
Richmond, Va.
From the Departments of Ophthalmology and Biophysics, The Medical College of Virginia.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 7, 1961.
This study was supported by the Defense Atomic Support Agency DA-49-146-XZ-102 and the Knights Templar Eye Foundation.
The data were presented in abstract at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the Association for Research in Ophthalmology, Miami Beach, January, 1961.
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