Force requirements for artificial muscle to create an eyelid blink with eyelid sling

Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-36

  Senders, Craig W ^a   Tollefson, Travis T ^a   Curtiss, Shane ^b   Wong Foy, AnnJoe ^a,c   Prahlad, Harsha ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Orthopedics ^*

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ARTICLE; BLINKING; EYE; EYELID; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION; VIDEORECORDING;

BLINKING; EYE; EYELIDS; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; TEMPORAL MUSCLE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 76749094558     PISSN: 15212491     EISSN: 15383660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archfacial.2009.111     Document Type: Article

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