Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Fay Kaplun & Marcin LL
  • Flicker-induced interocular transfer-of-oxygenation for non-invasively assessing neural integrity of a patient's central nervous system
    Patent number: 6416481
    Abstract: In the method and apparatus for assessing neural integrity of a patient's central nervous system, the patient is stimulated with a visual or auditory flickering stimulus, and oxygenation in the patient's second eye is sensed. Finally, the method and apparatus detects whether a change in the sensed oxygenation occurs in response to stimulation of the patient with the visual or auditory flickering stimulus. This change in the sensed oxygenation is indicative of neural integrity of the patient's central nervous system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Universite de Montreal
    Inventors: Jocelyn Faubert, Vasile Diaconu