Position and velocity responses from the otoliths and the canals: Results from ESA's parabolic flights

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 633-639

  Probst, T ^a,c   Bablok, E ^b   Dabrowski, H ^a   Dombrowski, J H ^a   Loose, R ^a   Wist, E R ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Bablok Laboratory Computer Systems   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOLITH; PITCH; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; VELOCITY;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; PARABOLIC FLIGHT; SHORT DURATION;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; POSTURE; SCALP; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; TIME FACTORS; VESTIBULE; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0029895215     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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