title: The ALTEA facility on the International Space Station.
abstract: The ALTEA project studies the problems related to possible functional damage to the Central Nervous System (CNS) due to particle radiation in space environment. The project is a large international and multi-disciplinary collaboration. The ALTEA instrumentation is an helmet-shaped multi-sensor device that will measure concurrently the dynamics of the functional status of the visual system and the passage of each particle through the brain within a pre-determined energy window. ALTEA is scheduled to fly in the International Space Station in February 2003. One part of the multi-sensor device, one of the advanced silicon telescopes, will be launched in the ISS in early 2002 and serve as test for the final device and as discriminating dosimeter for the particle fluences within the ISS.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Physics, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy.
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mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine / Q000295:instrumentation; D003359:Cosmic Radiation; D003623:Dark Adaptation / Q000528:radiation effects; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004867:Equipment Design; D005118:Extraterrestrial Environment; D005123:Eye / Q000528:radiation effects*; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D010719:Phosphenes; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000295:instrumentation; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation*; D018531:Spacecraft; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000528:radiation effects*