Effectiveness of computerized oculomotor vision screening in a military population: Pilot study

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1377-1398

  Capó Aponte, José E ^a   Tarbett, Aaron K ^b   Urosevich, Thomas G ^a   Temme, Leonard A ^a   Sanghera, Navjit K ^c   Kalich, Melvyn E ^a  

^a U S ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Binocular vision; Computerized oculomotor vision screening; mTBI; Oculomotor function; TBI; Traumatic brain injury; Vergence; Version; Vision

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; MTBI; TBI; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES; VERGENCES; VERSION; VISION SCREENING;

BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN; CORRELATION METHODS; VISION;

COMPUTER VISION;

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; BLAST INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTERIZED OCULOMOTOR VISION SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; SOLDIER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VALIDITY; VISION TEST;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTERS; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872699490     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 19381352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2011.07.0128     Document Type: Article

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