Emory Sleep Center Core Laboratory (ESCSL)
Last Updated:
February 27, 2026
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
- Multiple Sleep Latency testing (MSLT)
- Maintenance of wakefulness testing (MWT)
- Home Sleep Apnea Testing (HSAT), including Type 3 and Type 4 devices
- Actigraphy
- Sleep study scoring (PSG and HSAT)
- Sleep study interpretation
- Phlebotomy during testing
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)