Mechanical properties and functional importance of pulley bands or 'faisseaux tendineux'

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 2710-2714

  Van Den Bedem, S P W ^a   Schutte, S ^a   Van Der Helm, F C T ^c   Simonsz, H J ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Anatomy; Eye motility; Orbital biomechanics; Pulley

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROUZON SYNDROME; EVISCERATION; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEBACEOUS CARCINOMA;

AGED; BIOMECHANICS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 22544450852     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.04.016     Document Type: Article

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