PMID- 3905257
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19860109
LR  - 20041117
IS  - 0278-940X (Print)
IS  - 0278-940X (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 2
DP  - 1985
TI  - Brainstem auditory-evoked potentials.
PG  - 97-123
AB  - Brainstem auditory-evoked potentials (BAEPs) are generated in the ear and 
      brainstem nuclei of the ascending auditory pathways following a transient 
      acoustic stimulus. Because they can be recorded noninvasively in humans, BAEPs 
      have a number of clinical and research applications. This paper reviews the 
      properties of BAEPs, with particular emphasis on those characteristics that are 
      relevant to the acquisition and analysis of the responses. Theories of the neural 
      origins of the responses are reviewed. The dependence of the responses on the 
      stimulus waveform and the problem of stimulus artifact are considered. Then, 
      origins of the background noise are discussed, and the use of linear filtering 
      and methods of artifact detection to improve the signal-to-noise ratio are 
      reviewed. Finally, the problem of identifying parameters to quantify the 
      responses is considered. The definition of response components in terms of 
      response peaks and data on intra- and intersubject variability are reviewed, and 
      the use of algorithms to measure parameters is discussed.
FAU - Boston, J R
AU  - Boston JR
FAU - Moller, A R
AU  - Moller AR
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - Crit Rev Biomed Eng
JT  - Critical reviews in biomedical engineering
JID - 8208627
SB  - IM
MH  - Acoustic Stimulation
MH  - Animals
MH  - Auditory Diseases, Central/physiopathology
MH  - Auditory Pathways/physiology
MH  - Biomedical Engineering
MH  - Biometry
MH  - Brain Stem/*physiology
MH  - Cats
MH  - Electrodes
MH  - Electroencephalography
MH  - Electrophysiology
MH  - *Evoked Potentials, Auditory
MH  - Humans
MH  - Vestibulocochlear Nerve/physiology
RF  - 119
EDAT- 1985/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 1985/01/01 00:01
CRDT- 1985/01/01 00:00
PHST- 1985/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1985/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1985/01/01 00:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Crit Rev Biomed Eng. 1985;13(2):97-123.