Absence of deleterious effects of chronic microwave radiation on the eyes of rhesus monkeys.
Microwave irradiation of rhesus monkeys' eyes at 9.31 and 2.45 GHz and at an average power density of 150 mW per centimeter square is reported. Irradiation, beginning in 1976, of 17 monkeys (Macaca mulatta) was accomplished without restraint or anesthesia by training the monkeys to irradiate themselves. To data microwave radiation of these monkeys has not resulted in deleterious ocular effects.
D000818:Animals; D005123:Eye / Q000528:radiation effects*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008297:Male; D008872:Microwaves / Q000009:adverse effects*