[Functional study of the visual system in the cosmonaut by color campimetry]. / Issledovanie funktsional'nogo sostoianiia zritel'noi sistemy kosmonavta metodom tsvetovoi kampimetrii.

An investigation of series of experiments on the visual system dynamics carried out by cosmonaut-researcher Iurii Mikhailovich Baturin [correction of Yuri M. Batourin] in the piloted complex "Mir" in August 1998. The implementation of the method of the visual system investigation with the use of the luminance sensitivity thresholds to the stimuli of distinguished spectral components in different points of the visual field helps to clarify some negative dynamics of the visual system functional conditions reflected in the luminance sensitivity thresholds.

[Impact of focal allergic test with herpetic vaccine in diagnosis of ophthalmic herpes]. / Znachenie ochagovoi allergicheskoi proby s gerpeticheskoi vaktsinoi v diagnostike vnutriglaznogo gerpesa.

Clinical and immunological studies were carried out in 697 patients (913 eyes) for a more accurate diagnosis of herpetic involvement of the posterior segment of the eye by the focal allergic test (FAT) based on the delayed type hypersensitivity phenomenon. FAT consists in detection of the focal reaction in the eye, regularly developing after 2-3 intracutaneous injections of herpetic vaccine to types I and II herpes simplex virus in a dose of 0.2 ml every other day. The reaction is assessed by clinical and functional methods: visometry, campimetry, biomicroscopy, 9-point test, Amsler network, Hedinger's phenomenon, photocolor stress test, Rabkin's polychromatic tables, fluorescent angiography of the fundus oculi, electrophysiological methods, critical frequency of flash fusion, reflection microscopy of the corneal endothelium, and color campimetry realized on an IBM-compatible computer before and after vaccination of patients with suspected herpetic involvement of the eye. FAT was positive in 395 (56.6%) patients in 568 (62.2%) eyes. Examination of the threshold relative brightness sensitivity before and after FAT revealed positive results in 70% of patients. FAT is an accurate non-invasive method for the diagnosis of various manifestations of intraocular herpes. Relative safety of FAT recommends it for clinical practice to be used in the diagnosis of herpetic involvement of the posterior segment of the eye.

[Color campimetry in the diagnosis of diseases of the retina and optic nerve]. / Tsvetovaia kampimetriia v diagnostike zabolevanii setchatki i zritel'nogo nerva.

Color campimetry was realized with the use of an IBM-compatible computer display with a program permitting the registration of brightness sensitivity thresholds and the time of sensorimotor reaction to visual stimuli offered on the display in each point of the visual field. Investigation of light and color sensitivity thresholds and of the time of sensorimotor reaction to stimuli of different spectral composition in normal subjects helped study the functional topography of the retina by the time of sensorimotor reaction and by the brightness sensitivity thresholds. The methods of equalization by the brightness of the stimulus and background by means of recording the time of sensorimotor reaction was tried in experiments with different background brightness and stimulus size and in ophthalmologic examinations of patients with color abnormalities, diseases of the retina and optic nerve, with glaucoma and albinism.

[Possibilities of computer-assisted processing of the results of an examination of the visual system]. / Vozmozhnosti komp'iuternoi obrabotki rezul'tatov issledovaniia zritel'noi sistemy.

The authors present the first results of examining the vision system with the use of an automated programmed complex realized in the 'C' program language in the IBM and Dos operation system, that helped present in a chart the distribution of the ocular light sensitivity and time of the sensomotor reaction in every site of the visual field of 40-50 degrees. The results evidence that computer-aided methods may be effectively used to assess the light sensitivity of the eye, contrast sensitivity, space summation, rod and cone interactions, the topography of color photoreceptors, and the function of the posterior section of the eye in abnormalities of the retina and the optic nerve, as well as to monitor visual function rehabilitation after treatment.