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field teeted asa mart of this program.
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These siu'ters are designed
to prevent or minimise flash blin'ncess, aftec-imares, or retina’? burns.
Results optaine! on animals oxposet venini inese snu
cere wil> “ve cue
Paret with thoa- obtained by other shutters: ini filter mechaniems,
None of the animals exposet hal eyes be + open by artificial
means,
“his introduced the possibility thit the eye mirht be closed
at time sero,
An alarm bell was set up *2 waeen animale.
focuse? on *ho animals were used t)
Camarae
let. cmine shutter sreed ant to
Qscertain whether eyes were 2pen furing the time of exp-sure,
RESULTS
An examination of the expose ses -f the animals rev-elet a
minimal chorteretinal burn in a sincle ribdhit.
protected, crsept by his mm blick refle~,
This rabbit was un-
A visun?
check of the
equipment at the time of resentry indicated that dt had functional croe
perly.
Accurate determinaticn of ‘he actual cerformance of t-e shutters
snd of blink reflex time awifts analysis of hich speel motion sictures,.
~f 3) rabbits ind 3 monkeys exposed, 7 rabbits ani ? moneys were
deat at raeentry “ime,
COMELU SIONS
The presence of a single chortoretin.”
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Iniury saccests that the
total thermal energy ielivere? at the »xprsure site was prohablyr somewhit less than had bean caleulate?, ant was quite certainly delivered
at a mich slower rate,
The nora.) blink reflex tits at letermineld in
the laboratory is wevy nearly cointident etth the be-inning of the
second pulse after detonation,
The vresonre of a single lesion at-
tributsbl« to the flash dose ivt furnish sufficient dati to make any
evaluation of shutters and “d7‘era,
faseiicn “hase conclustois,
WALABLE CQgMb
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