High-altitude medical and operations problems and solutions for the Millimeter Array

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3349, Issue , 1998, Pages 456-465

  Napier, Peter J ^a   West, John B ^b  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High altitude; Medical; Oxygen; Physiology

Indexed keywords

HIGH ALTITUDE; LOW ALTITUDES; MEDICAL; NORTHERN CHILE; OXYGEN ENRICHMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UCLA);

BUILDINGS; NONMETALS; OBSERVATORIES; OXYGEN;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 58749105109     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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