From human perception to primate neurophysiology, monitoring eye position is critical to the study of vision, attention, oculomotor control, and behavior. Two principal techniques for the precise measurement of eye position-the long-standing sclera-embedded search coil and more recent optical tracking techniques-are in use in various laboratories, but no published study compares the performance...

BACKGROUND The video head impulse test (vHIT) is a useful clinical tool to detect semicircular canal dysfunction. However vHIT has hitherto been limited to measurement of horizontal canals, while scleral search coils have been the only accepted method to measure head impulses in vertical canals. The goal of this study was to determine whether vHIT can detect vertical semicircular canal dysfunct...

introduction:  the  use  of  mobile  communication  systems  has  dramatically  increased  over  the  past  decade. although many studies have been performed to determine the effect of radio frequency (rf) but  less attention has been paid to the possible biological impact of exposure to extremely low frequency  (elf) components.   the objective of this study is two folds. one is to design the ...

We study the impact of coil orientation on the motor threshold (MT) and present an optimal coil orientation for stimulation of the foot. The result can be compared to results of models that predict this orientation from electrodynamic properties of the media in the skull and from orientations of cells, respectively. We used a robotized TMS system for precise coil placement and recorded motor-ev...

Introduction: Gradient coil design is constrained by the important coil parameters of inductance, efficiency and field homogeneity [1]. Additional secondary concerns include reducing the induction of eddy currents and peripheral nerve stimulation, patient claustrophobia and acoustic noise [2]. The search for optimal coil geometries to address various combinations of these design criteria has re...

Foraminifera are single-celled organisms with internal calcerous shells, known as tests. The image above shows a shell with a planispiral chamber arrangement — during growth, chambers are added sequentially to form a coil in a flat spiral. Foraminiferan tests are quite diverse. The image shown here came from a study on the nature of the material in the calcerous test and how the foraminifera de...

BACKGROUND The head impulse test (HIT) is a useful bedside test to identify peripheral vestibular deficits. However, such a deficit of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) may not be diagnosed because corrective saccades cannot always be detected by simple observation. The scleral search coil technique is the gold standard for HIT measurements, but it is not practical for routine testing or for ac...

Parker Solar Probe is the first mission to probe in situ innermost heliosphere, revealing an exceptionally dynamic and structured outer solar corona. Its payload includes a search-coil magnetometer (SCM) that measures up three components of fluctuating magnetic field between 3 Hz 1 MHz. After more than years operation, SCM has revealed multitude different wave phenomena wind. Here we present ov...