title: Adaptive signal enhancement of somatosensory evoked potential for spinal cord compression detection: an experimental study.
abstract: The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of adaptive signal enhancement (ASE) as a means of indicating intraoperative spinal cord impingement. ASE technique was used to determine the changes in the somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) elicited from eighteen rats with varying levels of spinal cord compression. ASE technique was found to be able to effectively extract SEP signals for the detection of spinal cord injury. Furthermore, while the traditional ensemble averaging (EA) technique requires more than 500 trials for meaningful signal processing in severe noisy SEP recordings, the ASE method required only 50 trials to provide similar information. Because of its fast and reliable SEP detection, the ASE method is ideal for spinal cord monitoring in the clinical setting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital, 12 Sandy Bay Road, Hong Kong, China. yhud@hkusua.hku.hk
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Benny S C
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.forename: C Q
authors.initials: CQ
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Francis H Y
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: W W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Keith D K
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Luk
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; D051381:Rats; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology