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From: Irene Kochevar, kochevar@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
Date: 11/21/97
Time: 11:01:20 PM
Remote Name: 132.183.190.99
Comments
This is just the type of poster that stimulates thinking and is entirely appropriate
for an internet conference. The problem is interesting, the result is puzzling and
specific questions are asked to the readers. Is the oxygen concentration in the nucleus
lower than in the rest of the lens? If so, the higher amount of damage seen at this
location may result from a high efficiency, oxygen-independent mechanism occuring at this
location but not at more external sites because of quenching by oxygen. Thus, the few
photons that penetrate into the nucleus of the lens cause much more damage per photon than
those penentrating less deeply. This is a very general explaination but you may be able to
think of some way to test it.
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