THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A DEDICATED CLINICAL SYSTEM FOR TESTING AND ANALYZING OCULAR MOTILITY.

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A DEDICATED CLINICAL SYSTEM FOR TESTING AND ANALYZING OCULAR MOTILITY. COMMERCIALLY, OUR GOAL IS TO PRODUCE A LOW-COST, USER-FRIENDLY HARDWARE/SOFTWARE PACKAGE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO ALLOW CLINICAL PERSONNEL WITH NO COMPUTER TRAINING TO QUANTITATIVELY ANALYZE (ON-LINE) THE EYE MOVEMENTS PRODUCED IN PATIENTS DURING PURSUIT TRACKING, RANDOM SACCADE TESTS, CALORIC IRRIGATION, OPTOKINETIC AND POSITIONAL NYSTAGMUS TESTING AND (OPTIONALLY) ROTATORY TESTS OF VESTIBULAR FUNCTION. A CENTRAL CONTROL/ANALYSIS UNIT WILL BE DEVELOPED UTILIZING THE LATEST MICROPROCESSOR AND MEMORY TECHNOLOGY, PROGRAMMED USING PROVEN SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS. A SOLID-STATE STIMULATOR FOR SMOOTH-PURSUIT AND OPTOKINETIC TESTING WILL BE DEVELOPED AS WELL AS A SOLID-STATE THERMAL PROBE FOR CALORIC STIMULATION. PHASE I IS DEDICATED TO INVESTIGATING A NEW MEANS OF MONITORING EYE MOVEMENT. THE SUCCESS OF THIS PROJECT WOULD PROVIDE A NEW STRAUMATIC MEANS FOR MONITORING EYE MOVEMENTS WHICH OVERCOMES SEVERAL MAJOR PROBLEMS INHERENT IN CONVENTIONAL EOG RECORDINGS.