WEB-012Original abstract reviewed
Corneal damage thresholds during high-power 28 GHz exposure
The reported finding
Acute corneal damage occurred at high incident power; the authors estimated a dose-related injury threshold.
Reading it carefully
Original abstract only. High-power animal hazard experiment, not passenger-scanner or everyday 5G exposure. A matching carrier cannot establish equivalence of dose or waveform.
Inside the study
Technology connection
Millimetre-wave laboratory biology; frequency overlap does not demonstrate effects from a deployed system.
Publication type
Original journal research
Exposure conditions
28 GHz local rabbit-eye exposure for 6 min; injury at 400 mW/cm²; estimated 50% damage threshold 359 mW/cm².
Design & controls
Rabbit ocular-response experiment; corneal epithelial injury, oedema and opacity assessed.
Statistics
See reported finding and original tables; effect sizes not independently recalculated.
Related research & shared cohorts
The protection question raised
Which exposure conditions and biological models reproduce this response, and what would establish its relevance to health?
Source verification
Original abstract and bibliographic metadata checked; full methods and dosimetry not audited.
Where to find the result
Original abstract; methods verification incomplete
Editorial notices
Linked notice fields in retrieved Europe PMC/PubMed records checked 21 October 2026; no correction or retraction surfaced there. Publisher-history and forward-citation screening are not exhaustive.
Funding
Not established from retrieved original abstract.
Conflicts of interest
Not established from retrieved original abstract.
Original publication
Masami Kojima; Takafumi Tasaki; Toshio Kamijo; Aki Hada; Yukihisa Suzuki; Alfred Kik; Masateru Ikehata; Hiroshi Sasaki. Investigation of the Ocular Response and Corneal Damage Threshold of Exposure to 28 GHz Quasi-millimeter Wave Exposure. Health physics. 2025. doi:10.1097/hp.0000000000001951.