title: Brain stem auditory evoked potentials: reduction of evaluation errors.
abstract: The commonly used method of BAER evaluation is measuring the latency to the extreme points of the components. Because of the influence of noise it is sometimes impossible to determine precisely the true top of the peak. It is possible to avoid this defect by estimating the latency to the middle of the peak front. In this research S.D.s for both methods of evaluation were calculated for all interpeak intervals. According to the obtained data the use of the middle of the front of the peak for the latency evaluation gave 24% reduction in S.D.s.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged