Characteristics of spontaneous eyeblink activity during video display terminal use in healthy volunteers

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 241, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 914-920

  Freudenthaler, Nora ^a   Neuf, Hartmut ^b   Kadner, Gregor ^a   Schlote, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b EVANGELISCHES KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BLINKING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER TERMINAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; CORNEA; CORNEA REFLEX; DISPLAY SYSTEM; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHIRMER TEST; TEAR FILM; TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEORECORDING; VIDEOTAPE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; BLINKING; COMPUTER TERMINALS; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0348161491     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-003-0786-6     Document Type: Article

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