Citation

Konijnenberg JJ, Kingma H. Acta Otolaryngol. Suppl. 1995; 520(1): 194-198.

Affiliation

ORL Department, Academic Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8749117

Abstract

A vestibular function test is introduced for evaluating visuo-vestibular interaction (VVI), in which a visual target may move asynchronously with a pseudo-randomly oscillating rotatory chair. The results show better discrimination of patients (Meniere's disease, benign paroxysmal positioning vertigo (BPPV), uncompensated peripheral vestibular lesions. whiplash) than do standard tests (torsion swing, velocity step, calorization, smooth pursuit, optokinetics, saccade analysis). For the phase shift, the better performance is shown to stem from improved reproducibility. Signal analysis is done fully automatically, thereby precluding experimenter's bias.

Language: en