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NASA Grant [80NSSC20K183]: A Non-intrusive Ocular Monitoring Framework to Model Ocular Structure and Functional Changes due to Long-term Spaceflight.

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  1. University College Dublin School of Medicine, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Ethan Waisberg & Mouayad Masalkhi

  2. Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Joshua Ong

  3. Human-Machine Perception Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, USA

    Nasif Zaman, Prithul Sarker & Alireza Tavakkoli

  4. Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  5. Department of Ophthalmology, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  6. The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  7. Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  8. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  9. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  10. Texas A&M College of Medicine, Bryan, TX, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

  11. Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Andrew G. Lee

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Waisberg, E., Ong, J., Masalkhi, M. et al. Apple Vision Pro: the future of surgery with advances in virtual and augmented reality. Ir J Med Sci 193, 345–346 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-023-03457-9

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