Tenotomy procedure alleviates the "slow to see" phenomenon in infantile nystagmus syndrome: Model prediction and patient data

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1409-1419

  Wang, Z I ^a,c   Dell'Osso, L F ^a,b,c  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infantile nystagmus; Latency; Model; Ocular motor system; Saccades; Target acquisition; Tenotomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL IMAGING; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANTILE NYSTAGMUS SYNDROME; INFRARED RADIATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTONEURON; NYSTAGMUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TARGET VARIABLE; TENOTOMY; VIDEORECORDING; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NYSTAGMUS, CONGENITAL; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SACCADES; TENDONS; VIDEO RECORDING; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 43449115363     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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