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Post-ejection thickening as a marker of viable myocardium. An echocardiographic study in patients with chronic coronary artery disease
Authors:G Barletta  R Del Bene  P Lo Sapio  C Gallini  F Fantini
Affiliation:Department of Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. doleary@hsc.usc.edu
Abstract:Useful medical diagnostic information has been reported from low-frequency rotational testing of the horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) of patients with vestibular disorders. Servocontrolled rotating systems have been used as the only practical method to generate stimuli over lower VOR frequency response ranges, the decade from 0.01 to 0.1 Hz. Active head movements have been used for testing the human VOR at higher frequencies, exceeding 0.5 Hz. We examined whether active head movements could be used also to test the VORs of subjects over lower frequency ranges, extending to 0.02 Hz. We used a swept-frequency, active head movement protocol to generate a broad-band stimulus. Eye position was recorded with electro-oculography. Head velocity was recorded with a rotational sensor attached to a head band. Six individual test epochs from human subjects were concatenated to form complex, periodic waveforms of head and eye velocity, 75 seconds in duration. Broad-band cross-spectral signal processing methods were used to compute horizontal VOR system characteristics from these waveforms extending from 0.02 to 2 Hz. The low-frequency VOR data appeared to originate from amplitude modulation of high-frequency active movements, acting as carrier signals. Control experiments and processing of simulated data from a known system excluded the possibility of signal processing artifacts. Results from six healthy subjects showed low-frequency gains and phase values in ranges similar to those from published rotational chair studies of normal subjects. We conclude that it is feasible to test the human VOR over extended low-frequency ranges using active head movements because of amplitude modulation of the head and eye signals.
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