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Project 4.1 - Flash Blininess - Colonel %. S. Fixott
OBJECTIVES
To gain information regamiing the behavior of lid reflexes under
the high 4lluminstion produced by atomic jevices; to further evaluate
the blink reflexes as a protective mechanism against chorioretinal
burns,
To gain information on shutter anid filter mechanisms for eye
protection against chorioretinal buns causet by atomic weapons of
warious types ani yields.
INSTRUMENTATION
The basic ins
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entation for thig
Lacrosse),
Because of failure to protuce
shot was identical with that
(Cherokee) and
(Zunt).
lesions at previous!)releulated distances
in the earlie- events, permission vas obtained *o use four additional
exposure sites; TOM, (TRIAH, VAN and CHINIE"RC (AIVIN); vhioh are nearer
to ground sero than the original exposure facility at JAPTAN (DAVID).
While this change 414 not entirely succeei in bracketing the threshold
of burn protuction, it dii, however, produce a spectrum of burn severity
which otherwise would not have been obtaina'tle on any eingle shot.
Flectronic instrumentation and timing signale were employed only at the
station on JAPTAN (DAVID).
‘Tempora-y racks, holding ten rabbits each,
were used for each of the four forward sites,
Animals placed in these
racks were used for blink reflex ant filter studies on’y.
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General
BEST AVAILABLE COPY
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Chorioretinal burns vere produced in 42 of 113 rabbits and 6 of 8
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