Patent ID: 7892180
Filing Date: 2011-02-22
Classification: A61B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for preparing vestibular-response data for useful analysis regarding a desired diagnosis and prospective treatment of a subject's related vestibular disorder comprising: coupling an eye-enclosing, ambient light-excluding flame structure to and in a positionally stable non-relative-motion condition with a subject's head, wherein the frame structure includes a likewise positionally stable electronic video image-collecting sensor apparatus anchored thereto and positioned to observe one or both of the subject's eyes; applying to the subject a vestibular-response-inducing stimulus and producing a data record corresponding to the applied stimulus; collecting from the subject, concurrently with the applied stimulus, data indicating the subject's detectable vestibular-response relative to the applied stimulus; collecting from a geographical direction sensor data indicating a spatial position of the subject's head; producing a record corresponding to the vestibular-response data, wherein the vestibular-response data am thereafter selectively correlateable, whether individually or plurally, with respective corresponding contemporaneously-produced data of the stimulus data record; and electronically analyzing, by a computer, the vestibular-response data and the geographical direction sensor data relative to one or more characteristics of the applied stimulus to evaluate the subject's related vestibular disorder.