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ArticleDocumenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology2019

The effects of bandpass filtering on the oscillatory potentials of the electroretinogram.

Mercedes Gauthier, Mathieu Gauvin, Jean-Marc Lina, Pierre Lachapelle

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Article in Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Effect of 50-Hz Filters on Pattern Electroretinogram.Korean journal of ophthalmology : KJO · 2025
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  4. Electroretinographic oscillatory potentials in Leber hereditary optic neuropathy.Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology · 2024
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  6. Development of an Automated Electroretinography Analysis Approach.Translational vision science & technology · 2023
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  10. Electroretinogram analysis of zebrafish retinal function across development.Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology · 2021
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  11. Oscillatory potentials in patients with birdshot chorioretinopathy.Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology · 2020
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Mercedes GauthierDepartment of Ophthalmology and Neurology-Neurosurgery, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre/Montreal Children's Hospital, 1001 Boul. Décarie, Glen Site, Block E, Program Mail Drop Point #EM03211 - Office #EM03238, Montréal, QC, H4A 3J1, Canada.
Mathieu GauvinDepartment of Ophthalmology and Neurology-Neurosurgery, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre/Montreal Children's Hospital, 1001 Boul. Décarie, Glen Site, Block E, Program Mail Drop Point #EM03211 - Office #EM03238, Montréal, QC, H4A 3J1, Canada.
Jean-Marc LinaDépartement de Génie Électrique, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Pierre LachapelleDepartment of Ophthalmology and Neurology-Neurosurgery, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre/Montreal Children's Hospital, 1001 Boul. Décarie, Glen Site, Block E, Program Mail Drop Point #EM03211 - Office #EM03238, Montréal, QC, H4A 3J1, Canada. pierre.lachapelle@mcgill.ca.

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CIHR ERA-132932CIHR MOP-126082
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeIn order to study the OPs, the ERG signal must be filtered to eliminate the low-frequency waves known as the a- and b-waves. Unfortunately, the ISCEV ERG standard does not give clear guidelines on how to proceed apart from indicating that frequencies below 75 Hz should be filtered out when recording scotopic OPs, while no suggestions are offered for the photopic OPs. The purpose of this study was thus to characterize more extensively the effects of various digital filters on the photopic OP waveforms in order to suggest the most appropriate filtering method to record them.

methodsFiltered OPs (N = 9600 tracings) were extracted from a photopic ERG databank of 40 normal subjects [intensity: 4.4 cd s m

resultsThe timing of the OPs was less affected than the amplitude by the different filters used. Depending on the filter used, the resulting OPs were either severely depressed (16.16% of broadband OP content) or slightly reduced (93.63%). The filters that most successfully eliminated the slow components of the ERG (i.e., < 12% of broadband value) were the Bessel, the Butterworth and the Chebyshev type 1 filters and out of the latter, the Butterworth filter was that which most faithfully reproduced the high-frequency OPs (i.e., > 96%).

conclusionOur results vividly demonstrate the need to better define the characteristics of the filter that is used to record the OPs as it does have a significant impact on the resulting waveform.

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AdultColor VisionElectroretinographyFemaleFiltrationHumansMaleOscillometryPhotic StimulationRetinaRetrospective StudiesElectroretinogramFilteringOscillatory potentials

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