title: A portable neurological monitor for use in cognitive function studies.
abstract: The Visual Evoked Potential (VEP) has long established itself as a useful diagnostic tool for clinical use. The VEP is typically recorded in clinical environments due to equipment and experimental set-up. An alternative is proposed in this paper, whereby a light-weight, portable neurological monitor using active dry-electrodes is proposed and VEP data compared against clinically recorded data. It has been shown that a correlation coefficient of greater than 0.8 can be achieved with this set-up, demonstrating the diagnostic benefit of the system for both remote diagnosis and neurorehabilitation.
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland. rory.sobolewski@ee.ucd.ie
authors.forename: Rory
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sobolewski
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: O'Mullane
authors.forename: R Benjamin
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Knapp
authors.forename: Richard B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Reilly
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic