RT Journal Article
A1 Polhamus, G D
A1 Welch, A J
T1 Effect of pre-exposure fundus temperature on threshold lesion temperatures in the laser-irradiated rabbit retina.
JF Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
JO Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci.
YR 1975
VO 14
IS 7
SP 562
OP 565
SN 1552-5783
AB  The relationship between pre-exposure fundus temperature and the temperature rise which produces a threshold burn was examined in rabbit eyes exposed to an Argon c. w. laser (4,880 A) for 10 seconds. The posterior pole of the eye was surgically exposed and a 20-micron tip diameter probe was inserted into the ocular fundus to measure temperature rises. The temperature rise for threshold burns linearly increased as preexposure fundus temperature decreased, implying a constant threshold temperature. Threshold temperature was indirectly predicted to be 52.4 degrees C. using a system with an estimated error of plus or minus 1/2 degrees C. 
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