A System to Generate Patient-Specific Stimuli for use with the Auditory Brainstem Response Test

Author

Petoe, M.A. ; Bradley, A.P. ; Wilson, W.J.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane

fYear

2007

fDate

22-26 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

2452

Lastpage

2455

Abstract

The short-pulsed "click" stimuli most commonly used to evoke an auditory brainstem response (ABR) do not account for temporal shifts along the basilar membrane and do not produce ABRs of maximal amplitude. This paper describes a system that maps these temporal shifts and generates patient-specific stimuli to compensate. This is of interest both to enhance the ABR and as a potential way to map the physiology of the basilar membrane.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biomembranes; brain; neurophysiology; auditory brainstem response test; basilar membrane; patient-specific stimuli; temporal shifts; Auditory system; Australia; Biomembranes; Chirp; Data acquisition; Headphones; Patient monitoring; Physiology; Skull; System testing; Acoustic Stimulation; Amplifiers, Electronic; Audiometry, Evoked Response; Auditory Pathways; Auditory Threshold; Basilar Membrane; Conditioning, Classical; Conditioning, Operant; Equipment Design; Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; Hearing Tests; Humans; Models, Statistical; Time Factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0787-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352824

Filename

4352824