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4557270 Electroencephalographic system for intra-operative open-heart surgery  
During open-heart surgery an EEG (electroencephalograph) system detects a patient's brain waves, amplifies the brain wave signals and converts them into digital data. The cardiopulmonary bypass...
4550736 Movement artifact detector for sleep analysis  
The movement detector monitors the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal in order to detect components having a real-time frequency greater than 30 Hz and an amplitude greater than 18 μV; a real-time...
4545388 Self-normed brain state monitoring  
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for monitoring the brain state of a patient during a medical procedure relative to a self-norm established at an earlier time, when the patient is in a state...
4533346 System for automatic feedback-controlled administration of drugs  
A system for automatic feedback controlled administration of drugs (SAFCAD) is disclosed for the control of administration of drugs responsive to real-time processed physiological or...
4495950 QREEG Process matrix synchronizer system  
A QREEG matrix synchronizer system under the aegis of a "master" QREEG tracing has electrodes and sensors for obtaining new computational diagnostic relationships between EEG, EKG, and other...
4493327 Automatic evoked potential detection  
Disclosed are a method and a system for determining if a patient's brain electrical activity reflects a significant evoked response to a sensory stimulus. A test measure of the difference between...
4493539 Method and apparatus for objective determination of visual contrast sensitivity functions  
A method and apparatus for objectively determining the visual contrast sensitivity function of a human subject involves subjecting the vision of the human subject to a plurality of sine wave...
4478223 Three dimensional electrocardiograph  
This invention relates to a system for the clinical measurement of the electrical potential of a biological system using non-invasive monitoring equipment.
4462411 Evoked response audiometer  
An evoked response audiometer is disclosed in which the patient is presented with a continuous auditory signal which is amplitude modulated and the evoked brain potentials of the patient (EEG) are...
4424816 Neurological monitoring device test circuitry  
Circuitry for use with a brain wave monitoring device is provided for selectively monitoring the impedance of the current paths in the patient's scalp concurrently with brain wave monitoring, and...
4421121 Method and apparatus for obtaining a non-cephalic referential electroencephalogram  
A method and apparatus to provide an electroencephalogram (EEG) measured with respect to a reference which is not on the head and to eliminate the electrocardiographic (EKG) artifact which normally...
4417590 Electroencephalograph  
A multi-channel instrumentation system is provided wherein signals from selected electrode pairs are sequentially connected to the isolated input of a common signal amplifying path. The electrode...
4417592 Digital electroencephalographic instrument and method  
An electroencephalographic (EEG) system includes an electroencephalographic instrument comprising a plurality of electrodes adapted to be removably connected to the patient's head to detect brain...
4416288 Apparatus and method for reconstructing subsurface electrophysiological patterns  
Signals representative of electric potentials generated by cells of a given depth in the cerebral cortex or in other organs of a living body are detected at the surface thereof by an array of...
4412547 Neurological monitoring device  
A brain wave monitoring device for monitoring brain wave activity measures the frequency and amplitude of brain wave signals from the left and right hemispheres of the brain. The brain wave signals...
4411273 System and method for electrode pair derivations in electroencephalography  
In an electroencephalography system and method, 19 brain wave detection electrodes are removably attached to the scalp of the subject being tested. Using a common reference, such as linked...
4409987 Electroencephalograph  
A multi-channel instrumentation system is provided wherein signals from selected electrode pairs are sequentially connected to the isolated input of a common signal amplifying path. The electrode...
4407299 Brain electrical activity mapping  
Information on brain electrical activity is derived from electrical-activity transducers spaced apart over the skull, the information is processed into a time sequence of matrices having elements...
4369496 Apparatus for high-speed transcription of recorded physiological data  
A device for high-speed transcription of physiological data recorded at substantially lower speeds includes a device for converting the recorded data into electrical signals, a device for...
4350164 Portable, life monitor, medical instrument  
A self-powered life monitor in a pocket-size, portable container including a casing with electrode probes mounted on the casing which are capable of piercing the skin to rest in subcutaneous...
4328491 Dynamic data display system, as for use with EEG  
A dynamic display system for discrete events of complex data carried by discrete electrical signals which indicate values in three coordinates as triads. One of the values may be an independent...
4323079 Aperiodic analysis system, as for the electroencephalogram  
An aperiodic signal is preliminarily processed by an active network to provide three relatively separate components that include: slow waves (waveform cycles or fragments of equivalent frequency...
4308873 Electroencephalograph monitoring  
Apparatus for monitoring those signals in the brain which give rise to electroencephalograms (EEG) is described. The apparatus is particularly applicable to the fetus where EEG signals often...
4279258 Rapid automatic electroencephalographic evaluation  
The rapid automatic examination and evaluation of large numbers of subjects by electroencephalography is accomplished by removably securing electrodes to the head of each subject under test to...
4275744 Auditory response detection method and apparatus  
Auditory tone burst signals are supplied to the ear of a human subject and the electroencephalographic responses are monitored, filtered, and provided to a sampler which samples the polarity of the...
4275743 Measuring device for measuring the bioelectrical activity of the central nervous system  
In an exemplary embodiment, a plurality of electrodes to be applied to the patient are employed and potential differences between the electrodes and a reference potential derived from the electrode...
4254779 Brain wave analysis apparatus for use in diagnosing living body conditions  
In a brain-wave analysis apparatus, an electrical brain-wave signal is analyzed for purposes of diagnosis by detecting the time interval between adjacent ones of the intersections of the brain-wave...
RE30502 Open lead testing system for EEG  
A system for continuous monitoring for open circuits in multiple lead EEG systems during patient testing. Means are provided for repetitively applying a low current signal, having a distinctive...
4245645 Self-locking cerebral electrical probe  
A self-locking encephalic electrical probe is used for stereoelectroencephalographic exploration in the treatment of epilepsy or other brain diseases. The probe includes a long, hollow, flexible...
4244376 Measurement of evoked nervous system potentials  
Steady-state evoked potentials from the nervous system, measured on the scalp and elsewhere on the body in response to specific periodic sensory stimuli, contain the fundamental frequency of the...
4236511 Electroencephalograph  
A multi-channel instrumentation system is provided wherein signals from selected electrode pairs are sequentially connected to the isolated input of a common signal amplifying path. The electrode...
4230125 Method and apparatus for effecting the prospective forewarning diagnosis of sudden brain death and heart death and other brain-heart-body growth maladies such as schizophrenia and cancer and the like  
A method and apparatus for effecting the prospective forewarning diagnosis of sudden brain or heart death or other brain-heart and growth malady in a person comprises measuring the T-3 factor of...
4228806 Sleep state inhibited wake-up alarm  
A wake-up alarm is set to ring in some time interval. One or more physical characteristics of the sleeping subject, including brain wave activity, pulse rate, REM activity, muscle tension, body...
4219028 Automatic verifying electroencephalograph system  
An improved electroencephalograph system is disclosed having a system for automatically verifying the input and output parameters of the various channels, the preset number selected, and a patient...
4216781 Methods of electrophysiological testing  
In electrophysiology, methods of testing a subject's neural mechanisms of learning and memory in order to quantitatively diagnose the subject's brain dysfunction require specified conditions or...
4214591 Brain wave analyzing system and method  
A memory unit stores, as decision-criterion data for a brain wave to be examined, a mean vector A, a variance vector C and at least one critical value F α at an appropriate significant level α...
4213465 Electroencephalograph  
A number of measuring electrodes for emplacement on the head of a patient, signal amplifiers whose input channels are connectable, via a selector, to the measuring electrodes according to a pattern...
4201224 Electroencephalographic method and system for the quantitative description of patient brain states  
A method and system for the quantitative description of human abnormal brain states, for example, to distinguish cerebral death from a barbiturate induced deep coma, includes an...
4188956 Method for the analysis, display and classification of multivariate indices of brain function--a functional electrophysiological brain scan  
A method in electroencephalography (EEG) for the display of neurometric test data in which electrical activity generated by the brain either spontaneously or in response to specified challenges or...
4171696 Prevention of distortion of brainwave data due to eye movement or other artifacts  
Eye and head movements produce large voltages which obscure the electrical activity of the brain, interfering with diagnostic procedures. In the system and method of the present invention...
4094307 Method and apparatus for aiding in the anatomical localization of dysfunction in a brain  
A method and apparatus for synthesizing a set of optimal sensory stimuli designed to elicit an optimal response for each particular brain electrode location in a subject whose brain is being...
4092981 Method and apparatus for brain waveform examination  
A neural efficiency rating is arrived at by amplifying and band-limiting an EEG waveform of a subject, discarding those parts of the waveform during which alpha rhythm is present, and measuring the...
4084583 Method and apparatus for measuring the bioelectrical activity under an electrode resting on a patient  
Method and apparatus for measuring the bioelectrical activity of a patient, wherein a signal electrode is placed on a patient and a plurality of auxiliary electrodes are placed adjacent the signal...
4083365 Dual integrator EEG analyzer  
An electroencephalograph (EEG) is connected to record the brain wave response of a subject to periodic stimuli. An EEG analyzer comprising a dual integrator circuit separately records positive and...
4037586 Electroencephalograph display  
An electroencephalograph (EEG) instrument or system including a visual display panel actuated in response to digital signals for indicating the particular pattern in which the electrodes connected...
3958563 Two speed system for EEG recording  
A method and system for recording EEG waveforms whereby the amplitude of the waveform signal in both positive and negative direction is compared with variable levels and a trigger signal produced...
3951134 Apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves  
Apparatus for and method of sensing brain waves at a position remote from a subject whereby electromagnetic signals of different frequencies are simultaneously transmitted to the brain of the...
3910258 Cerebral activity monitor  
A brain wave signal monitor with a warning device actuated by failure of the signals to be present at a preselected minimal level for a specific period of time. The warning device is actuated by a...
3901215 Method of testing the senses and cognition of subjects  
A patient who may be unable to cooperate is tested for auditory, visual and somatosensory perception and for various cognitive processes. The testing method involves selecting the conditions to be...
3893450 Method and apparatus for brain waveform examination  
A method and apparatus for examining the brain waveform of a subject, for example in a type of electro-encephalography (EEG), by providing a stimuli, such as a light, and determining a...