title: [Autoregressive analysis of flash evoked potentials in healthy preterm infants during sleep].
abstract: To interpret the flash evoked potential (FVEP) as dynamic high-order responses to natural and experimental stimulation in healthy preterm infants, waveform analysis of FVEP in 36 healthy preterm infants (postconceptional age 28~42 weeks) were performed using an autoregressive analysis. Based on the histogram of damping frequency of different component impulse response waveforms, the waveforms were divided into 4 groups: group I (0 ~ <2 Hz), group II (2 ~ <6.5 Hz), group III (6.5 ~ <12.0 Hz) and group IV (12~25 Hz). The total power, power of component impulse responses (group I~IV), and damping time (group II~IV) changed significantly with increasing postconceptional age (P<0.01 or P<0.05). Identification of an impulse response component with dominant frequency which undergoes a well-identified change with age is considered to be a useful tool for discriminating between normal and abnormal changes in the FVEP with age in healthy preterm infants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Second Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China. chenxlp@mail.sy.ln.cn
authors.forename: Xiao-Long
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xiao-Li
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Shu-Ying
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Meng
mesh_terms: D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*