Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
Fall 1-31-1995
Degree Name
Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering - (M.S.)
Department
Biomedical Engineering Committee
First Advisor
Andrew Ulrich Meyer
Second Advisor
Edward Joseph Haupt
Third Advisor
David S. Kristol
Abstract
The use of signal modeling of the oscillatory potential (OP) of the electroretinogram (ERG), in the study of cone-rod interaction is investigated. ERG response data were analyzed for red, orange, blue and white flashes on no background and with red flashes on a blue background (to suppress rod responses). The OP signals were extracted from the ERG by digital bandpass filtering and a signal model was fitted through a simplex algorithm to produce the parameters including "OP envelope-amplitude", latency in terms of "center-time" of the OP-envelope and OP frequency. Amplitude for red flashes with or without a blue background showed similar increases at high stimulus intensities. White and orange flashes produced higher amplitudes at all stimulus intensities, thus demonstrating the presence of rod OP within the signal. Latencies changed relatively little for pure cone stimuli with increasing intensities, while latency sharply reduced for responses for blue stimuli. Use of signal modeling provides a simple procedure for summarizing the characteristics of the OP in rods and cones over a range of amplitudes.
Recommended Citation
Banker, Kehur, "Model parameter identification for rod and cone oscillatory potentials" (1995). Theses. 1164.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/1164
