Electromyographic (EMG) activity of the airway muscles suggest that genioglossus is the primary upper airway dilator muscle. However, EMG data do not necessarily translate into tissue motion and most imaging modalities are limited to assessment of the surfaces of the upper airway. In this study, we hypothesized that genioglossus moves rhythmically during the respiratory cycle and that the motio...

Detection, analysis and compensation of respiratory motion is a key issue for a variety of medical applications, such as tumor tracking in fractionated radiotherapy. One class of approaches aims for predicting the internal target movement by correlating intra-operatively captured body surface deformations to a pre-operatively learned deformable model. Here, range imaging (RI) devices assume a p...

Electrical or natural stimulation of the vestibular system results in changes in blood pressure and respiratory motor output. An increase in excitatory drive on the sympathetic nervous system occurs during nose-up vestibular stimulation in cats; this response is appropriate to offset orthostatic hypotension that could result from nose-up body rotations during movements such as vertical climbing...