The History of Eyeballs as Particle Detectors—Physics Today

Read article—Lesley Jarvis, an associate professor of radiation oncology and applied sciences, and Brian Pogue, a professor of biomedical engineering, appear in an article about the human eye's ability to detect high-energy particles. Jarvis and Pogue worked on a camera for detecting radiation that produced visible light in a patient's eye during testing, which Jarvis later confirmed was produced by charged particles. "And all of a sudden, right out of her pupil we saw blue light glowing out of her eye," Jarvis said.