Subfoveal choroidal thickness and foveal retinal thickness during head-down tilt

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 388-393

  Shinojima, Ari ^a   Iwasaki, Ken Ichi ^a   Aoki, Ken ^a   Ogawa, Yojiro ^a   Yanagida, Ryo ^a   Yuzawa, Mitsuko ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enhanced depth imaging; Hydrostatic pressure; Intraocular pressure; Simulated microgravity; Spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CHOROID; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA FOVEA; SPACE FLIGHT; VASCULARIZATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHOROID; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPACE FLIGHT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 84860443797     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.3191.2012     Document Type: Article

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