OBJECTIVE To compare the sensitivity and specificity of ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (oVEMPs) using 2 electrode montages for the diagnosis of superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS). SUBJECTS 16 SCDS patients (17 affected-SCDS ears, 15 contralateral-SCDS ears) and 12 controls (24 ears). METHODS oVEMPs were recorded in response to 500-Hz tone bursts using 2 electrode montag...

Montage is a portable toolkit for constructing custom, science-grade mosaics by composing multiple astronomical images. The mosaics constructed by Montage preserve the astrometry (position) and photometry (intensity) of the sources in the input images. The mosaic to be constructed is specified by the user in terms of a set of parameters, including dataset and wavelength to be used, location and...

This chapter describes how astronomical imaging survey data have become a vital part of modern astronomy, how these data are archived and then served to the astronomical community through on-line data access portals. The Virtual Observatory, now under development, aims to make all these data accessible through a uniform set of interfaces. This chapter also describes the scientific need for one ...

Convergent findings point to a left-sided specialization for the representation of learned actions in right-handed humans, but it is unknown whether analogous hemispheric specialization exists for motor skill learning. In the present study, we explored this question by comparing the effects of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over either left or right motor cortex (M1) on m...

This paper describes an extensible multimedia electronic mail system called Montage which is based on the X Window System. Montage supports the composition, transmission, and viewing of structured documents consisting of virtually any type of medium. Further, users can at runtime extend the system easily to support new document types, including text, images, audio, video, executable programs, a...

A 23-year-old woman was admitted for brief, recurrent spells of intense fear and visual hallucinations. During video-EEG study, one of the spells showed no definite ictal EEG changes on longitudinal bipolar montage for 26 seconds while evolving rhythmic discharges were readily visible on Cz reference. Because the pattern was evenly distributed in the temporal region at onset (figure), it “cance...

We use auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) to illustrate the challenges in defining and assessing target engagement in the context of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for psychiatric disorders. We defined the target network as the cluster of regions of interest (ROIs) that are consistently implicated in AVH based on the conjunction of multimodal meta-analytic neuroimaging data. T...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC In October 1996, the bispectral index monitor (BIS) was introduced to anesthesiologists as a reliable brain function monitor that allowed anesthetic titration over the complete range of cortical activity [1]. In January 2004, the BIS received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for reducing the incidence of intraoperative awareness during...

We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable...