Abstract
Papers entitled “Retinal Light Exposure from Ophthalmoscopes, Slit Lamps, and Overhead Surgical Lamps, ”1“ Ophthalmic Lasers, Photocoagulation, Photoradiation and Surgery, ”2 as well as papers on the lighting conditions 3 for visual acuity testing and contrast sensitivity testing compose a significant portion of our ophthalmologic reading. These papers freely use unfamiliar terms such as watts, joules, irradiance, foot-candles, lux, lumens, candelas, millilamberts, etc. Of course, there are a number of excellent texts which rigorously define these terms.4–6 Unhappily, if the terms and units are not used in almost a daily fashion, the meanings blur.
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Erhardt, L., Miller, D. (1987). Radiation, Light, and Sight. In: Miller, D. (eds) Clinical Light Damage to the Eye. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4704-3_1
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