Seven-degree head-down tilt reduces choroidal pulsatile ocular blood flow

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 930-934

  Kergoat, Hélène ^a   Lovasik, John V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ocular perfusion pressure; Pulsatile ocular blood flow; Retinal ischemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; PERFUSION; PULSATILE FLOW; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SIMULATION; VISION;

ADULT; CHOROID; CONES (RETINA); FEMALE; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HUMANS; HYPOGRAVITY; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RODS (RETINA); SPACE FLIGHT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 26444560977     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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