Biological Effects Of Full-Spectrum Lighting

Elwood D. Bickford

doi:10.1117/12.958780

7 October 1980 Biological Effects Of Full-Spectrum Lighting

Elwood D. Bickford

Proceedings Volume 0229, Ocular Effects of Non-Ionizing Radiation; (1980) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.958780
Event: 1980 Technical Symposium East, 1980, Washington, D.C., United States

Abstract

Humans and other living organisms have evolved various known and unknown photoreceptors and responses under full-spectrum optical radiation of sun and sky at the earth's surface. The trend to indoor living over the past 100 years has produced a self-exile from this radiation environment resulting in the disease conditions of rickets and erythema. Concerns for these diseases have pointed attention to the delicate balance between the beneficial and detrimental effects of full-spectrum optical radiation and has confounded the concepts of illumination and radiation safety criteria. Further knowledge has to be obtained to better evaluate the known and unknown effects of full-spectrum optical radiation in a modern society.

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Elwood D. Bickford "Biological Effects Of Full-Spectrum Lighting", Proc. SPIE 0229, Ocular Effects of Non-Ionizing Radiation, (7 October 1980); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.958780

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