title: 128-channel cable-telemetry EEG recording system for long-term invasive monitoring.
abstract: A 128-channel cable-telemetry EEG monitoring system has been developed for use on patients undergoing intensive neurodiagnostic monitoring with invasive intracranial electrodes. A unique head mounted preamplifier/multiplexor design allows continuous recording from any combination of intracerebral, subdural, epidural or surface electrodes. A computer is used to delay or buffer all 128 channels by 2 min or more. This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition. Seizure files created by the activation of the seizure/event push button or detected by a second computer containing on-line seizure/spike detection algorithms are written directly on to the fileserver by the acquisition computer. The 128 channels of EEG recorded on the fileserver can then be remotely reviewed on a high resolution graphics terminal, printed out on a laser jet printer, archived or played out on paper, 16 channels at a time on any EEG machine. A time of day signal is also generated by the computer to permit time correlation with a continuous audio/video VCR unit which permits comparison of the EEG and clinical events. This system allows continuous EEG monitoring of extensive multichannel arrays not previously possible with conventional 16-, 32- or even 64-channel systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Ives
authors.forename: N R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Mainwaring
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Gruber
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Cosgrove
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Blume
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Schomer
mesh_terms: D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D013686:Telemetry; D013997:Time Factors