Electrooculography

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Electrooculography
Electrooculograms for the left eye (LEOG) and the right eye (REOG) for the period of REM sleep.
ICD-9-CM	95.22
MeSH	D004585
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Electrooculography (EOG) is a technique for measuring the corneo-retinal standing potential that exists between the front and the back of the human eye. The resulting signal is called the electrooculogram. Primary applications are in ophthalmological diagnosis and in recording eye movements. Unlike the electroretinogram, the EOG does not measure response to individual visual stimuli.^{[citation needed]}

To measure eye movement, pairs of electrodes are typically placed either above and below the eye or to the left and right of the eye. If the eye moves from center position toward one of the two electrodes, this electrode "sees" the positive side of the retina and the opposite electrode "sees" the negative side of the retina. Consequently, a potential difference occurs between the electrodes. Assuming that the resting potential is constant, the recorded potential is a measure of the eye's position.

In 1951 Elwin Marg described and named electrooculogram for a technique of measuring the resting potential of the retina in the human eye.^[1]