Detection and Assessment of Spinal Cord Injury Using Spectral Coherence

Author

Fatoo, N. ; Mirza, N. ; Ahmad, Rabiah ; Al-Nashash, Hasan ; Naeini, H. ; Thakor, N.

Author_Institution

American Univ. of Sharjah, Sharjah

fYear

2007

fDate

22-26 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

1426

Lastpage

1429

Abstract

Graded spinal cord injury was induced in rats using the NY-Impactor. Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs), in response to stimuli to the nerves in the limbs, were recorded from the cranium. These signals were analyzed using spectral coherence analysis. Results obtained from 15 rats show information that was missed when other techniques are used.

Keywords

bioelectric potentials; biomedical measurement; neurophysiology; somatosensory phenomena; spectral analysis; NY-Impactor; SEP; nerve stimuli; somatosensory evoked potentials; spectral coherence analysis; spinal cord injury detection; Algorithm design and analysis; Cranium; Delay; Electrodes; Monitoring; Rats; Rodents; Signal analysis; Spectral analysis; Spinal cord injury; Algorithms; Animals; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Electroencephalography; Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; Female; Rats; Rats, Inbred F344; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Somatosensory Cortex; Spinal Cord Injuries;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0787-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352567

Filename

4352567