Intracranial pressure in microgravity conditions: Non-invasive assessment by ophthalmodynamometry

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1227-1229

  Draeger, J ^b   Rumberger, E ^c   Hechler, B ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Dynamometry; Fluid shift; Intracranial pressure; Microgravity; Tonometry

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; DYNAMOMETRY; FLUID SHIFT; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MICROGRAVITY; OPHTHALMODYNAMOMETRY; SPACE FLIGHT; TONOMETRY;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ASTRONAUTS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MICROCOMPUTERS; OPHTHALMODYNAMOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TILT-TABLE TEST; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 0032721696     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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