TY - JOUR
T1 - Magnetic eye tracking
T2 - A new approach employing a planar transmitter
AU - Plotkin, Anton
AU - Shafrir, Oren
AU - Paperno, Eugene
AU - Kaplan, Daniel M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received June 24, 2009; revised September 21, 2009 and November 27, 2009. First published February 17, 2010; current version published April 21, 2010. This work was supported in part by the Analog Devices, Inc., in part by the National Instruments, Inc., and in part by the Ivanier Center for Robotics Research and Production Management, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Asterisk indicates corresponding author.
PY - 2010/5/1
Y1 - 2010/5/1
N2 - A new scleral search coil (SSC) tracking approach employing a planar transmitter has been developed theoretically and tested experimentally. A thin and flat transmitter is much more convenient in installation, operation, and maintenance than the conventional large cubic one. A planar transmitter also increases the mobility of SSC systems, simplifies their accommodation in a limited clinical space, enables bedside testing, and causes no visual distractions and no discomfort to the users. Moreover, it allows tracking not only the SSC orientation, but also its location, which is very important for many medical and scientific applications. The suggested approach provides the speed and precision that are required in SSC applications. The experimental results show that it can be used for the diagnosis of vestibular disorders. The tracking precision is in good agreement with its theoretical estimation.
AB - A new scleral search coil (SSC) tracking approach employing a planar transmitter has been developed theoretically and tested experimentally. A thin and flat transmitter is much more convenient in installation, operation, and maintenance than the conventional large cubic one. A planar transmitter also increases the mobility of SSC systems, simplifies their accommodation in a limited clinical space, enables bedside testing, and causes no visual distractions and no discomfort to the users. Moreover, it allows tracking not only the SSC orientation, but also its location, which is very important for many medical and scientific applications. The suggested approach provides the speed and precision that are required in SSC applications. The experimental results show that it can be used for the diagnosis of vestibular disorders. The tracking precision is in good agreement with its theoretical estimation.
KW - Eye tracking
KW - Planar transmitter
KW - Scleral search coil (SSC)
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U2 - 10.1109/TBME.2009.2038495
DO - 10.1109/TBME.2009.2038495
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77951282593
SN - 0018-9294
VL - 57
SP - 1209
EP - 1215
JO - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
JF - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
IS - 5
M1 - 5415595
ER -