{"id":36164,"date":"2026-06-17T13:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=36164"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:17:36","slug":"the-history-of-eyeballs-as-particle-detectors-physics-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/the-history-of-eyeballs-as-particle-detectors-physics-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Eyeballs as Particle Detectors\u2014<em>Physics Today<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=c143349fab&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Lesley Jarvis, an associate pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> radiation oncology and applied sciences, and Brian Pogue, a pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> 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 <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> a sudden, right out <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> her pupil we saw blue light glowing out <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> her eye,\" Jarvis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=c143349fab&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Lesley Jarvis, an associate pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> radiation oncology and applied sciences, and Brian Pogue, a pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> biomedical engineering, appear in an article about the human eye&#8217;s ability to detect high-energy particles. Jarvis and Pogue worked on a camera for detecting radiation that produced visible light in a patient&#8217;s eye during testing, which Jarvis later confirmed was produced by charged particles. &#8220;And all <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> a sudden, right out <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> her pupil we saw blue light glowing out <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> her eye,&#8221; Jarvis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-9pi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36165,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36164\/revisions\/36165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}