{"id":120799,"date":"2021-03-22T21:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/doctors-capture-cherenkov-light-being-generated-inside-patients-eyeball-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2021-03-22T21:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:22:16","slug":"doctors-capture-cherenkov-light-being-generated-inside-patients-eyeball-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/doctors-capture-cherenkov-light-being-generated-inside-patients-eyeball-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Capture Cherenkov Light Being Generated Inside Patient\u2019s Eyeball For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doctors-capture-cherenkov-light-being-generated-inside-patients-eyeball-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, people undergoing radiotherapy, which is used to treat cancer, have reported a bizarre phenomenon: Seeing flashes of light in their eyes, even when their eyes are closed.<\/p>\n<p>Patients documented in the medical literature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0167814015003941\">have described<\/a> a \u2018\u2018ray of blue light\u201d and \u2018\u2018seeing a blue neon light\u201d, sometimes accompanied by a \u201cwhite smell\u201d during the delivery of radiation, lasting for a fraction of a second. There have been several theories for why this could be happening, including retinal pigments inside patients\u2019 eyes being stimulated during the therapy, or that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherenkov_radiation\">Cherenkov light<\/a> or Cherenkov radiation \u2013 the same effect that makes nuclear reactors glow blue when they\u2019re underwater \u2013 is produced inside the eyeball itself.<\/p>\n<p>Now scientists have captured this strange light for the first time, producing the first photographic evidence that the phenomenon is in fact Cherenkov light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, people undergoing radiotherapy, which is used to treat cancer, have reported a bizarre phenomenon: Seeing flashes of light in their eyes, even when their eyes are closed. Patients documented in the medical literature have described a \u2018\u2018ray of blue light\u201d and \u2018\u2018seeing a blue neon light\u201d, sometimes accompanied by a \u201cwhite smell\u201d during [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}