UV Photography (Victor Inyushin)

Introduction

This article is based substantially on previously published work. It appeared in a series of articles in the now defunct Journal of Biological Photography in 1993. The work also formed part of the now out of print book Biological Photography edited by Vetter published by Focal Press in 1992. Reports of individual advances were also contained in published papers in the Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine during the 1990's. Parts of the article were also contained in a thesis for the Fellowhship of the Royal Photographic Society (medical section) by one of of the authors (Gigi Williams).

The electromagnetic spectrum is comprised of a series of waves arranged in order of wavelength. The various types of radiation forming this spectrum differ widely, and only a very minute part of this spectrum has any relevance to photography. Usually photography is confined to the visible part of the spectrum, those waves that the eyes see as "light'. This part of the spectrum is comprised of wavelengths from approximately 400 - 700 nanometers (nm), which can be seen by the eye as a change of colour. The shorter wavelengths are blue, the longer ones red. At either end of the visible spectrum lie two "invisible" spectra: the ultraviolet which extends from x-rays to the blue end of the visible spectrum, and the infrared which extends beyond the red and into heat (Figure 1). One important function of photography is to extend the range of spectral visualization of the human eye and record these "invisible" spectra. Infrared and ultraviolet photography therefore acts as investigative tools that are capable of discovering new facts about the subject. In some fields of investigation, extensive work has been reported on the use of invisible radiation photography. Other areas of application, however, remain unexplored and await the attention of the research-oriented photographer.

Both ultraviolet and infrared photography offer a visible interpretation of an invisible state - no one has ever seen what the subject looks like under these radiations because the retina is insensitive to them. There is, therefore, no "correct" density to print to. It is also sometimes very difficult to interpret the infrared or ultraviolet record. It is for these reasons that one should always include a control photograph taken with visible light to provide an exact comparison of the subject. It is also worth pointing out that clinicians and scientists will often have an incomplete understanding of the value of infrared and ultraviolet techniques. The competent photographer, however, will always be alert to the possible application of these techniques, and may indeed need to correct misunderstandings about their use.

There are two distinct techniques of ultraviolet photography: the reflected or direct method, and the ultraviolet fluorescence method. Reflected ultraviolet photography requires the subject to be lit with ultraviolet radiation, and filtration used so that only ultraviolet radiation is allowed to reach the film. The ultraviolet fluorescence technique requires that only ultraviolet radiation is allowed to fall on the subject, and the camera (if there is any fluorescence) records the emitted visible light. The reflected ultraviolet method is described in this chapter; the fluorescence method is described in 'Ultraviolet fluorescence photography.'

Journal of Paraphysics

Fröhlich proposed that collective modes of both electromechanical oscillations (phonons) and electromagnetic radiations (photons) extend over macroscopic distances within the organism and perhaps also outside the organism. This theory has been extended by a number of theoretical physicists (e.g. Vitiello, Giudice, Duffield), who show that such coherent excitations can arise under the most general conditions of energy processing (pumping and sharing), and that once established, they are stably maintained.

Czech group of scientists, lead by Pokorny, have been measuring radiations from the EEMF within organisms, which confirm Fröhlich's predictions, although at somewhat lower frequencies. Popp is one of the pioneers in detecting ultra-weak photon emission from living systems. He and many others since, have found that all organisms emit light ('biophotons') at ultra-weak intensities, which are strongly correlated with the cell cycle and other functional states. From the research of biophotons hypotheses are proposed that the photons are held in a coherent form in the organism, and when stimulated, they are emitted coherently. Many experimental evidence confirm these hypotheses.

Dr. Victor Inyushin at Kazakh University in Russia suggests the existence of a so-called bioplasmic energy field composed of ions, free protons and free electrons. His observations showed the bioplasmic particles are constantly renewed by chemical processes in the cells and are in constant motion. There appears to be a balance of positive and negative particles within the bioplasma that is relatively stable. In spite of the normal stability of the bioplasma, Inyushin has found that a significant amount of this energy is radiated into space. According to him, clouds of bioplasmic particles, which have broken away from the organism, can be measured moving through the air. Research of the endogenous EM field (also "the biological field", "biofield" or "the bioplasmic field") and its visualization

Some other research and developmental projects are aimed towards measuring EM field in the proximity of an organism, or capture the corona discharge at the contact with the plate under a high voltage (a well known and fairly succesful Kirlian photography), some other measure current, frequency or voltage on a surface of an organism.

Most of these systems are already used for subsidiary diagnostics. When applied for this purpose such systems (e.g. the system developed by Korotkov on the basis of Kirlian photography) relate measured values to the database of correlations, which stores correlations between energy states of a bigger group of tested subjects and their measured values. On this basis new data is extrapolated and visualized as two dimensional biological field around predefined shape of an organism but it is clear that this is not the actual biological field. Correlations that are used for this are found to correspond to organism's state in many times, but not always, because of insufficient knowledge of the biological field and its dynamics.