FLICKER-INDUCED INTEROCULAR TRANSFER-OF-OXYGENATION FOR NON-INVASIVELY ASSESSING NEURAL INTEGRITY OF A PATIENT'S CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

摘要

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.