Emory Sleep Center Core Laboratory (ESCSL)
Last Updated: August 19, 2025

The Emory Sleep Center (ESC) Core Laboratory provides research sleep studies (polysomnography) in the Emory Sleep Center at Executive Park 12 (ESC). The ESC Core lab is staffed by trained sleep technologists and supervised by sleep medicine board-certified physicians. Both the Sleep Center and Core Lab are accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The Core Lab supports research coordinators and provides the following services:  

  • Overnight Polysomnography testing (PSG) with and without PAP
  • Nap studies (PSG)
  • Multiple Sleep Latency testing (MSLT)
  • Maintenance of wakefulness testing (MWT)
  • Home Sleep Apnea Testing (HSAT)
  • Phlebotomy during testing
  • Actigraphy
  • Sleep study scoring (PSG and HSAT) 

Equipment

Trained technologists and staff schedule, coordinate, and perform the sleep studies for the Core Lab, which maintains study data on its server. To collect study data, the lab is equipped with Nox Polysomnography software, which can perform the following: 

  • Electromyography
  • Electroencephalography
  • Electrooculographyy
  • Electrocardiography
  • Airflow sensors (nasal pressure and thermistor)
  • Inductance plethysmography for respiratory effort measurement
  • Pulse oximetry
  • Transcutaneous or end-tidal carbon dioxide measurements
  • Audio and videotaping synchronized to polysomnography with infrared lighting
  • PAP titration (all modalities)
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