TY - GEN
T1 - Fluid dynamic events within the vitreous cavity induced by saccadic eye rotations
AU - Cafferata, Chiara
AU - Repetto, Rodolfo
AU - Siggers, Jennifer
AU - Stocchino, Alessandro
PY - 2007/6/24
Y1 - 2007/6/24
N2 - The vitreous cavity constitutes most of the eye volume and is filled by the vitreous humour or vitreous body. It has the shape of a weakly deformed sphere, the deformation being essentially due to the presence of the lens, which produces an inward indentation in the anterior part of the chamber. Under normal conditions the vitreous body has the consistency of a gel with viscoelastic rheological behaviour [1]. Ageing gradually disintegrates the gel structure leading to a partial or total vitreous liquefaction. After some surgical procedures (vitrectomy) the vitreous body may be completely replaced by “tamponade fluids”, typically silicon oils, which are left for a certain time within the eye and are eventually replaced by water.
AB - The vitreous cavity constitutes most of the eye volume and is filled by the vitreous humour or vitreous body. It has the shape of a weakly deformed sphere, the deformation being essentially due to the presence of the lens, which produces an inward indentation in the anterior part of the chamber. Under normal conditions the vitreous body has the consistency of a gel with viscoelastic rheological behaviour [1]. Ageing gradually disintegrates the gel structure leading to a partial or total vitreous liquefaction. After some surgical procedures (vitrectomy) the vitreous body may be completely replaced by “tamponade fluids”, typically silicon oils, which are left for a certain time within the eye and are eventually replaced by water.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=40449106929&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/sbc2007-176417
DO - 10.1115/sbc2007-176417
M3 - Chapter in a published conference proceeding
SN - 0791847985
SN - 9780791847985
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference 2007, SBC 2007
SP - 495
EP - 496
BT - Proceedings of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference 2007, SBC 2007
PB - The American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME)
CY - U. S. A.
T2 - 2007 ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC 2007
Y2 - 20 June 2007 through 24 June 2007
ER -