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        Manual de Analisis Cuantitativo Tomográfico del EEG (qEEGT)
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1.        The norms are available for the monopolar recording montage as well as  the average reference montage     Screen description    When the application starts  the working screen is presented  The module  has a work area with 7 work sheets  a horizontal menu  tool bar   information bar and status bar  At the beginning of the working session  the last analyzed study is loaded     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Application title Horizontal Menu  fa EEG Quantitative Analysis Information bar ole    File Edit view Patient Tools Help    s  QQWAY OS   AS      State A vl  Raw v      aP applied  l    Analysis Marrow Band 10 20 fproad Band   Broad Band State   Narg  Band 10 20 Comparison   All Map views         Work area            gt     C  TWDATA ALAR__ 0          The horizontal menu has verticals menus containing most of the  commands available in the module  However there are commands due to  its use or its activation way don   t appear at the menus  All the commands  are described in the Command description     Tool bar  The module has a tool bar with the most frequently used commands   Open study  Zoom out spectra  Zoom in spectra  Smooth spectra  Locate maximum in spectra  Locate minimum in spectra    Scale map    C e lt  gt  teHPPNp  amp     Change map palette    NI    EEG Quantitative Analysis    mM Change map view  d    Movie      Print preview    Print    Ufa    A more detailed explanation will be given later in the command   s  description     Status bar    EEG Quantitati
2.      Add Color    This button adds a new color in the palette  When pressed   opens the standard Windows dialog for selecting colors   Once chosen  the new color becomes the active color and  is inserted after the previously active color  It is disabled  when the palette reaches the maximum of 256 allowed    _    EEG Quantitative Analysis    colors     Delete Color   This button erases the palette s active color  The following  color becomes the new active color  This button is disabled  when the palette reaches the minimum of 2 colors     When pressing the Ok button a dialog for saving the recently edited  palette is presented if any editing was carried out  The palette files are  stored as files  LEV in the application s directory     eS The palettes MAP  RAINBOW and BIPOLAR can not be edited because they are  used by default in the module     Change map view    8       This command changes the map view  When activated a submenu with 5  options  Top  Right  Left  Front and Back is displayed for selecting the new  view     Copy to window    Copies the active map  the map where the mouse cursor was placed when  the command was activated  to a floating window map     Copy to All Map Views    Copies the active map  the map where the mouse cursor was placed when  the command was activated  to the All Map Views work sheet     View in BRainbow    Executes BRainbow system for displaying in three dimensions topographic  maps  Once initialized  BRainbow loads the active topographic m
3.    Studies Management  See explanation in Studies Management on EEG Recording  Chapter II    Application Files    See explanation in Application Files on EEG Recording  Chapter II      Exit   Exits from module   Edit  Scale map    8 S    This command scales maps  When activated  a dialog is shown that sets  the scale type and its parameters     29    EEG Quantitative Analysis    30    Scale Map    Scale type   MaxMin        Minimum    9150440  Maximum    3 9344043      Best Fit    OK   Cancel      There are 4 scale types        Scale  MaxMin    Threshold    Percent    Meaning    In this scale type the values minimum and maximum for  scaling the map are defined  When this type is selected two  edit boxes are shown  Minimum and Maximum for editing  the values  The toggle Best Fit automatically adjusts the  scale based on the extreme values of the map     With this scale type is possible to focus on the positive and  negative values in the map  When this type is selected the  edit box Threshold is shown to define the threshold that  will be used as the scale limit in both directions  positive  and negative  The toggle Best Fit automatically adjusts the  scale based on the extreme value of the map     With this scale type it is possible to work with the values of  the map in relative rather than real magnitudes   Conceptually it is similar to the MaxMin type but the values  are scaled by percent  For the percent conversion the  maximum value of the map is taken as 100  converting
4.   Once the dialog is closed with the Ok button the newly selected  palette will become the active palette of the application  If the Edit button  is pressed the window is enlarged adding new controls to change the  palette     User   s Manual  QEEGT  Version 5 0 3     EEG Quantitative Analysis    32       Change Palette    Current   MAP ka   Palette    selection  Preview       Preliminary Number of colors    view      17 Active color  Colors     Current  0 Change color button    iw Interpolated H  Color movement  buttons           J    Interpolation  option                x  dd Color    wa a and Delete color    uttons  Cancel   Delete Color Edit button       The first element that appears is a vertical bar divided by the quantity of  real colors that compose the palette  The colors are denoted in bottom up  order from O to the number of colors 1  The number of colors is indicated  in the box Colors   Dragging the mouse over the cursor  4  to the right of  this bar sets the active color  The active color can also be selected with  the edit box Current     There are also 5 buttons for editing the palette     C  This button changes the active color  When pressed  opens  the standard Windows dialog for selecting colors     This button moves the active color up in the palette  It is  disabled when the active color is the last one in the palette     This button allows moving the active color down in the  palette  It is disabled when the active color is the first one  in the palette
5.  are shown  By using the option present at the  information bar the desired measure can be selected  Maps are displayed  in a matricial way also  where the roes correspond to the bands and the  columns to the calculated states  In order to facilitate the comparison  a  common scale is used for every band  There are options at the  information bar for selecting the transform to visualize as well as PG  correction  As in the Broad Band page is also possible to mark unmark  maps for restricting the scope of several commands to the marked maps     When pressing the right button mouse over the different elements at the work  sheet a pop up menu will be displayed with the available commands for those  e ements     When the mouse cursor is over the map the derivation name and its value are  shown at the status bar     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Broad Band State       eas          1  2 20 2 20 2 20    GF AP Delta A WH  GF AF Delta B uve Hz  gt  GF A amp F Delta C pW Hz          6 94  1 75 15 1 75    GF AP Theta A uv H2   GF AF Theta E uv  H2   GF AF Theta C pW Hz    E E 22 96  3 97 3 97 3 97    GF AF   lpha    pV  vH2 GFAP Alpha H2  GFP AF AlphaC pve He    1    7 18  1 50 1 50 1 50    GP AP Beta    pH  gt  GP AP Beta E WH  GP AP Beta C uvetHe    37 46 E 37 46  10 77 10 77 10 77    GF AP Total    WH GP AF Total B WH   GF AP Total C Wwe Hz                            CATWDATA ALAR  1 O1  A12 2 271    Narrow Band 10 20 Comparison    In this work sheet the CROSS and ZCROSS models can be
6.  be given later in the command s  description     Information bar    EEG Quantitative Analysis has an information bar with options relative to  the current work sheet     50    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Active tomography  type       Active state Active Broad  Band measure     state ra    Raw    Absolute Power   GP applied bu   Cortex  amp  Basal Ganglia T          Active transformation   raw or Z     Work sheets    EEG Quantitative Analysis has 7 works sheets  Analysis  Narrow Band  10 20  Broad Band  Broad Band State  Narrow Band 10 20 Comparison   Narrow Band All and All Map Views  but only at Analysis  Narrow Band  10 20  the electrical tomography is calculated or visualized  To know  about the other work sheets see the EEG Quantitative Analysis chapter     Analysis  In this work sheet the electrical tomography models can be calculated   The button Restore Defaults allows setting default values for models  calculation valid for comparison with norms  In this case the montages    with average reference are considered default also because the ETC and  ETCBG are calculated only with average reference montages     Analysis         Marrow Band Definition Broad Band Definition Models    Spectral Resolution   0 390625 Hz Bands Init  Freg  Hz   Final Freq  H2  HJ aren Bend spedire  Fermer    We Marrow Band Spectral Parameters Z Transf     iHi i Delta 1 56 Joe  Initial Frequency   0 781250 Hz   i Broad Band Spectral Parameters    Final Frequency   19 14063 Hz Theta 3al fide iw B
7.  iO     State 4   Broad Band Spectral Parameters  mm tespres ANE State 4   Narrow Band Spectral Parameters   55  EwS setup State      Z Transformed Broad Band Spectral Paramete  CD twdata State 4 2 Transformed Narrow Band Spectral Paramet    ic ul  Me    core   tp      The Ok button loads the study selected at the central panel     Add file to comparison    20    This command allows adding files  spectra  to the Narrow Band 10 20  Comparison work sheet  When activated a dialog similar to the one shown  for Open Study is presented  In this dialog the right panel shows the  different narrow band studies available for comparison     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Add file to comparison         neuroscan   51 Program Files     qee9   15  QEEGTSet  2  Recycled   51 RECYCLER   55  RoboHELP Ter        Scan Data    gt   stacker     15  SUPPORT       G System volum       ot L  ic tespres    tw setup  5 twdata  i ul  iili    OK   Cancel   Help         The Open button loads in the next free position in the sheet the selected  file     Remove file from comparison    With this command the files loaded at the Narrow Band 10 20 Comparison  can be removed  The first file can not be removed and the command is  enabled when at least one of the files present in the sheet is marked  The  files can be marked by pressing the left button mouse over the map  The  maps following the recently removed  if any  are moved to the beginning  in order to let the free slots to the end     Import EEG    This co
8.  mean spectra  corresponding to the age of the study     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Frequency  26   I Mean  o7et He   Std  Dev    3 15    GF 0 781 Hz pv   He2    Narrow Band All       5 8 a     Oe  AVE Gl  AYE Oe  AVE Pz  AVE Pd  AWE       da 7 90    dl 2 43    ro  Ps oR TE  AWE Cg  AF 744 4F Td  AYE  2 63 wird 2 30 3 19 wil  TS  AWE PS  AWE Poa Pora DE  AWF  2 91 2 91 2 90    la 1 98  PFSR Te ANE Ta   AvE 3  AWF PF Z A F  aql Iad 3 65 cd 1 67      FZ avr    Fa avr    Fe avr    T3  AWR Ti  AWR ao  4         CHNEUROSCAM IGOZR2BF 462 305WP5 1    T When pressing the right button mouse over the different elements at the work  sheet a pop up menu will be displayed with the available commands for those  elements    ne When the mouse cursor is over the map the derivation name and its value are    shown at the status bar     All Map Views    This work sheet plots a topographic map using the five views available   The top view is displayed in the bigger size and the rest using the medium  size  The sheet is initialized with the map corresponding to the first  Spectra frequency  but by using the Copy to All Map Views command is  possible to update it     18    EEG Quantitative Analysis    All Map Views      GP AP Theta GP AP Theta  GP AP Theta GP AP Theta  cH       GP AP Theta pv   H2       C  NEUROSCAN IGOZR2BF 462 30SWPS 0    Marking unmarking maps is not allowed in this sheet  All the operations  available for maps are carried out over all maps  views      When pressing the right 
9.  the  rest of the values in relation to the maximum  When this  type is selected two edit boxes are shown  Minimum and  Maximum for defining the values in   and the toggle Best  Fit which when turned on causes an automatic adjustment  based on the extreme values of the map     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Peak This scale type is similar to Percent but here it is possible  Percent to determine the sign of the peak value that will be taken  as the reference of 100   When this type is selected the  edit box Minimum is shown to define the minimum value in       the maximum is always 100  as well as a radio control  Peak to set the sign of the peak value        Change palette  0 EE      Using this command is possible to change the active palette by selecting a  new one or by editing the present one  When this command is activated a  dialog is shown with several controls  an option list indicating the active  palette s name  the active palette s preview  an option for interpolating the  palette and the Edit button for editing the palette     The palettes can use up to 256 colors  If the palette does not have 256  colors  as usual  and the option for interpolating is set  the application  linearly interpolates the present colors up to 256 to obtain the palette that  is actually used in the work sheets  If the option for interpolating is not  set  the palette will be used without interpolation     By means of the option list it is possible to select any one of the available  palettes
10.  to be opened doesn t have the files needed for calculation nor  visualization     Number of segments not optimum for X    The number of segments for calculation in a given state should be greater  or equal than the number of channels in the calculation montage     Error reading file X    File could not be read because of deletion or errors on disk     Error writing file X    File could not be read because of errors on disk or not enough available  space on disk     Study not found    The study to be opened is not in the expected path     Models don t have the same size    Models to be exported must have the same dimensions  ex  same number  of frequencies  same number of bands  same number of channels  etc     Maximum must be greater or equal than O    In the Percent scale type  maximum must be greater or equal than O     User s Manual  QEEGT  Versi  n 5 0 41    EEG Quantitative Analysis    42    Maximum must be greater than Minimum    In the MaxMin and Percent scale types  Maximum must be greater than  Minimum     Minimum must be greater or equal than O    In the percent scale type  Minimum must be greater or equal than 0     Minimum must be greater than O and less than 100    In the Peak Percent scale type  Minimum must be greater than O and less  than 100     Invalid Montage    The montage selected for calculation can not be used because has more  than 32 channels  or is a bipolar montage     No state selected    At least one state must be selected for calculation     No 
11.  visualized  Here  is possible to compare until 4 different spectra over the 10 20 system   The spectra are plotted in the same window  The first spectra loaded in  the sheet corresponds to the current spectra shown in the Narrow Band  sheet  that s why whenever the active spectra in the Narrow Band is  change this sheet is reset     In this work sheet the windows where the spectra are plotted are also  placed spatially resembling the 10 20 system  but here the maps are  displayed to the right  With the radio button control present to the left of  every window map is possible to set the current spectra for comparison   The color of the radio button control indicates also the spectra   s color     15    EEG Quantitative Analysis    la    la    16    The values shown on every window spectra are taken from the current  vertical cursor position for the current spectra     There are options at the information bar for selecting the transform to  visualize as well as PG correction  The commands Add file to comparison  and Remove file from comparison add and remove different spectra  respectively     Narrow Band 10 20 Comparison      Frequency  Fp1 A12 Fp2 412    9 375 Hz     1 83 2 00     2 43  GP 3 375 Hz pv   H2    3 35     2 43  GP 9 375 Hz pWE Hz    3 35     2 43  GP 3 375 Hz pv   H2       C  TWDATAVALAR__ 1 CiitwdatalALAR__ B 1    When pressing the right button mouse over the different elements at the work  sheet a pop up menu will be displayed with the available commands for t
12. 101  102  103  104  105  106  107  108  109  110    112  113  114  115  116  117  118  119  120    CP4    Cl  C2  F5  F6  FC3  FC4  FCT  FC2    CP5  CP6  PO7  PO8    EEG Quantitative Analysis    EEG ELECTRICAL TOMOGRAPHY       Introduction    In TrackWalker it is possible to calculate and visualize the electrical  tomography in the frequency domain   see What is Electrical Tomography         In the module EEG Quantitative Analysis several commands have been  added to carry out the calculation and visualization of the electrical  tomography  Three new model types have been added     Model Shorthand   Meaning    Electrical ETC This model localizes electrical sources only at  Tomography the brain cortex of the average brain   see  over Cortex What Electrical Tomography is     Electrical This model localizes electrical sources at the  Tomography brain cortex as well as basal ganglia of the  over Cortex average brain   see What Electrical    and Basal Tomography is    Ganglia    Electrical This model localizes electrical sources at the  Tomography regions given by the Lead Field used    over   Individual   Brain       In addition  the Z transform for every one of these models is calculated  also  A sizable difference between one observed parameter and the mean  value in a population of normal subjects of the corresponding age is  evidence of possible abnormality  Z transform express this difference in  standard deviation units facilitating its interpretation  The mean values  and 
13. EEG Quantitative Analysis  QEEGT    User Manual    Version 5 0    WYNEURONIC s a     2006    Introduction    la    EEG Quantitative Analysis has been designed for carrying out quantitative  analysis of electrical activity  The methods used are based on EEG spectral  analysis using Fast Fourier Transform  FFT  and produce several numerical  parameters as output  These results are stored on different models that  can be viewed and interpreted also with this module     Models calculated with EEG Quantitative Analysis are     Model Shorthand   Meaning    Narrow Band   CROSS This model localizes frequencies where an   spectral abnormal electrical activity is reached as well   parameters as its spatial distribution  avoiding the loss of  frequency and spatial information inherent to  the Broad Band Model     Broad Band This model approximates spectra  Narrow   spectral Band spectral parameters  as a constant over   parameters certain frequency bands  Includes Absolute  Power  Relative Power and Mean Frequency  measures  see Table below        In addition  the Z transform for every one of these models is calculated  also  A sizable difference between one observed parameter and the mean  value in a population of normal subjects of the corresponding age is  evidence of possible abnormality  Z transform express this difference in  standard deviation units facilitating its interpretation  The mean values  and standard deviations were obtained from regression equations against  age in a 
14. OSSAS MOD Ej ALAR CROSS A MOD  Ej ALAR  CROS5 4 4  MOD Ej ALAR _  CROS5 C 8  MOD  Ej ALAR  CROS5 B 1   MOL    Files of type  Narrow Band Models    Cancel      2 Narrow Band Models   Broad Band Models      Broad Band Models   ET Cortes Models   Z ET Cortex Models   ET Cortex  amp  Basal Ganglia Models  Z ET Cortex  amp  Basal Ganglia Models  All Models       The selected models must belong to the same model type and the  measures to export must have also the same dimension for every file     Once the desired files are selected  a dialog for selecting items to export  is presented  Depending on the model type different information appears  on the dialog  The figure shows in the upper part the dialog configuration  for CROSS models and in the lower part the configuration for BBSP models   By using the selection lists it is possible to set the item to be exported     The dialog shows also 3 check boxes  The first one  GP Applied  for  setting the correction by Geometric Power  With the second check box   New line per value  the user select if every value will appear in the output  text followed by a return line or not  The third check box  Show labels     23    EEG Quantitative Analysis    sets if the labels for each item are shown in the output text file  In this  case the first row in the file will show the label for every item  If there is  more than one file involved in the operation  its filename will be shown at  the beginning of the corresponding row in the output text fil
15. ale limit in both directions  positive and  negative  The toggle Best Fit automatically adjusts the scale  based on the extreme values of the tomography        Tools       Movie    a      This command makes a movie at the Narrow Band 10 20  Narrow Band  10 20 Comparison and Narrow Band All sheets  The movie can be  generated online or can be stored in an AVI file depending on the options  set at the command Options Movie     When the movie is carried out online  all the frequencies selected  according to the settings  initial and last frame  in Options Movie are  displayed in sequence  The movie is carried out using all the elements  present including the tomography  if present  in the active work sheet   When activated a small dialog is presented for allowing pausing and speed  changes in the movie  The movie is finished when the dialog is closed     56    EEG Quantitative Analysis    View in BET Viewer  amp   amp     This command executes the BET Viewer system for displaying in hi res  the electrical tomography  Once initialized  BET Viewer loads the electrical  tomography corresponding to the current frequency  The command is  disabled if BET Viewer is not installed     E It is recommended not to close BET Viewer once loaded if the user wants to  use it continuously together with EEG Quantitative Analysis in order to save  time needed for BET Viewer to initialize     Options    This command sets different general options used in the module  When  activated a dialog with 3 
16. ap  the  map where the mouse cursor was placed when the command was  activated   The command is disabled if BRainbow is not installed     Change map size    Changes the map size  When activated a submenu with 3 options  Little   Medium and Big is displayed for selecting the new size  The command is  enabled only at the context menu in the floating window maps  see  command Copy to window      33    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Smooth spectra 7 iii    This commands smoothes spectra present in the active work sheet by  means of a mobil average  Smoothing is applied to all the waves present  in the window  To restore the original spectra use the Restore original  command     Zoom in wy  amp       Zoom out    Q        These commands change the amplitude of spectra present in the active  work sheet  The amplitude change is applied to all the waves present in  the window  To restore the original amplitude use the Restore original  command     Restore original    The original spectra shape can be restored with this command  It is also  enabled in the Broad Band State work sheet for restoring original maps  after executing the Difference command     Move cursor right  gt     This command moves cursor to the next frequency in the work sheets  plotting spectra     Move cursor left  lt     This command moves cursor to the previous frequency in the work sheets  plotting spectra     Copy Ctrl C  Copies the active work sheet content to the clipboard   Copy to    Copies the active work shee
17. ary view is presented  showing the current appearance of the elements     EEG Quantitative Analysis    36          Options    Appearance   Movie   Misc       Item  Color  Style        Spectrum Signal     ES    Fat          OK   Cancel   Help      The tab Movie shows two combo boxes for selecting the initial and last  frame to use in the movie  When the check box Generate AVI file is set  for  selecting if the movie is carried out on line or not  another two check  boxes are enabled for selecting which elements will be present in the  movie as well as a combo box for setting the speed        Options    Appearance Movie   Mise       W Generate AVI File    Initial Frame   0 781 H gt      W Animate Map    jw Animate spectra    Last Frame  19 141 Hz     Frame rate  15 Fos       o   coca    6    In the tab Misc  the background color for bitmaps saved with Copy and  Copy to commands can be set as well as the threshold value for scaling  maps by default when the Z Transform is set  In addition it is possible  also to set the default palettes for plotting images for raw and Z  transformation       a    Options    Appearance   Movie Misc       Background      Map Threshold       Current  3 50       Black M Default Palettes       white Raw  MAP     Z Transf  BIPOLAR         Cancel   Help         EEG Quantitative Analysis    The color background selection is used also for generating the movie with the    Movie command     39    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Error Messages    40    Access 
18. button mouse over the different elements at the work  sheet a pop up menu will be displayed with the available commands for those  e ements        rl When the mouse cursor is over the map the derivation name and its value are  shown at the status bar     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Command description    Fil    Open study        gt  F1     Select the study to be analyzed  When activated a dialog with 3 panels is  presented  The left panel allows to select the path where the studies to be  analyzed are  The central panel lists all the studies present in the path  selected at the left panel  If there is more than one analysis per study  the  different analyses are sorted by the order number  The right panel shows  for the study selected at the central panel detailed information about the  study     Open Study    Study Information   AAD 1 eee  Date  2 17 2005 3 35 26 AM  Initial Frequency 0  7613    Spectral resolution  0  390625            gt   MyControls  A        gt   neuroscan    Program Files       ALAR       qeeg    ALAR   Frequencies  48  co  Oo GEEST Set pas   channels 19  a  Recycled ALAR Montage   ic RECYCLER ALOR Fol a  R  Fo2 4VR F3  AWYR F4  AYR  C3  AWR C4  AWR F    Gl  AYR o  AWYR FY  YR Fo  AYR TS  AVR TA  AWR TE     CQ RoboHELP Ter FZ  ANR CZ  AWR PZ  AVR       Scan Data    ALAR         D AOA wom w4 A A Be w      M e    Eo ALAR   bands 5  stacker     iO ALAR Bands      SUPPORT   Delta Theta Alpha Beta Total     System volum    ALAR        E   AMC EEG recording 
19. denied to X    The X file could not be opened  The most probable cause is that the file is  already opened in another application or its attribute is Read Only     Invalid color    The color is already assigned to another element or is the same as the  background window color     Invalid Frequency Band cuts    Some frequency band cuts for Broad Band calculation are outside the  limits already set for Narrow Band     Invalid High Cut Frequency    Cut not valid because is not a valid number or the difference with the low  cut is less than spectral resolution     Invalid Low Cut Frequency    Cut not valid because is not a valid number or the difference with any  band cut is less than spectral resolution     Invalid frequency cuts    Some low cut frequency band is greater or equal than the high cut  frequency for that band     Derivations not included in recording montage    Some derivations in the montage selected for calculation are not present  in the EEG recording montage     Invalid destination path    Palette files can be saved only at the application path     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Invalid age for norming in X    Patient s age is outside the limits for norming     File does not match with previous models    The file to be added to the Narrow Band 10 20 Comparison don t match  with the files already loaded in that sheet  Maybe different spectral  resolution  different starting frequency  different number of frequencies   etc     Study can not be processed    The study
20. e     Select items to export    Frequencies Derivations     GP applied    New line per value      Show labels    Select items to export    Measures Derivations  Export  Absolute Power  Relative Power  Mean Frequency Cancel    Help         GP applied    New line per value      Show labels       After selecting the items to export  a dialog for selecting the output text  filename is presented  Another text file with the same name but with  files  extension will be created for indicating for every line in the exported text  file the model filename that corresponds with that line     Page setup  With this command the appearance of the printed pages can be set  When    activated a dialog is presented for setting the different items  left and top    24    EEG Quantitative Analysis    margin as well as a logo  bitmap  for being printed at the top part of every  page  It must be taken into account that EEG Quantitative Analysis prints  always in landscape orientation     Page Setup    Margins    Left  E mm    Top   5 mm      OK   Cancel         E E The top margin is added to the space occupied by the logo if any     Print Setup    This command sets the characteristics of the printer  When activated  a  dialog that also sets the paper size and orientation appears        Print Setup    Printer    Name  HP Lazenlet 3300 Seres PCL E      Properties       Status  Ready   Type  HP Lasenet 3300 Seres PCL E   Where   IP_130 102 159 91   Comment     Paper Orientation    Size  Letter        Po
21. en the mouse cursor is over the map the derivation name and its value are    shown at the status bar     Narrow Band All    In this work sheet the CROSS  ZCROSS  ETC  ZETC  ETCBG and ZETCBG  models are visualized and is enabled only if the loaded study has  derivations not belonging to the 10 20 system  All the spectra derivations  are plotted and not only the 10 20 system  The windows for plotting the  spectra are placed in a matricial way following the montage order  The  topographic map showing the spatial distribution of the current vertical  cursor position as well as the electrical tomography are displayed also     53    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Marrow Band All       Frequency      2 984 Hz              Ex    p             51  REF   52  REF  4 03 4 36      EE CE  REF   El  ER  REF  5 04 4 05        Ea  EEF 54  REF   EO  REF  5 56   5 44 4 88       N                        When pressing the right button mouse over the different elements at the work  E sheet a pop up menu will be displayed with the available commands for those    elements     When the mouse cursor is over the map the derivation name and its value are    IE shown at the status bar     54    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Command description    The commands for working with the electrical tomography as well as the  commands with added functionality will be described in the following     Fil    Export to text    This command exports to text  ASCII  files the content of the different  models generated with 
22. hose  e ements     When the mouse cursor is over the map the derivation name and its value are  shown at the status bar     As in the other sheets that plot maps  it is also possible to mark unmark  maps for restricting the scope of several commands to the marked maps     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Narrow Band All    In this work sheet the CROSS and ZCROSS models are visualized and is  enabled only if the loaded study has derivations not belonging to the  10 20 system  All the spectra derivations are plotted and not only the  10 20 system  The windows for plotting the spectra are placed in a  matricial way following the montage order  The topographic map showing  the spatial distribution of the current vertical cursor position is displayed  also     There are options at the information bar for selecting the state to  visualize  the transformation  raw or Z  as well as PG correction   Depending on the calculated variants for the loaded study  these options  will have available the different possibilities     When the Z transform is selected  two horizontal bars are plotted for every  window indicating the thresholds  1 96 and 1 96 respectively     When the raw transformation is selected it is possible also to plot the  mean and standard deviations of the normal population over the current  spectra  This is possible only if the loaded study can be compared with  the norms  The interval represented by the standard deviations is  obtained from adding and subtracting 1 96 to the
23. in the movie  The  movie is finished when the dialog is closed           Locate    Locate    EEG Quantitative Analysis    When the movie is stored on AVI files  a dialog for selecting the AVI  filename is presented first  After that the movie is carried out and stored  frame by frame on the AVI file for its posterior visualization on any player     maximum in spectra    8 A    This command places the vertical cursor on the frequency where the  amplitude maximum is reached in the spectra at the Narrow Band 10 20   Narrow Band 10 20 Comparison and Narrow Band All sheets     minimum in spectra    8 Y    This command places the vertical cursor on the frequency where the  amplitude minimum is reached in the spectra at the Narrow Band 10 20   Narrow Band 10 20 Comparison and Narrow Band All sheets     Montage    This command allows montage edition  When activated the montage  selected  if only one  at the Analysis work sheet is loaded in the Montage  edition dialog  see Montage in EEG Recording Chapter Il   If there is more  than one montage selected  then the Montage edition dialog is presented  with all the derivations of the 10 10 system available for editing     Options    This command sets different general options used in the module  When  activated a dialog with 3 tabs is presented     The tab Appearance allows setting color and style of different elements  used in the module  The combo box Element selects the element to be  changed  At the central part of the tab a prelimin
24. low adding and deleting bands  respectively  The button Restore Defaults allows to set default values for  CROSS and BBSP models valid for comparison with norms  In this case  the  RECORD montage as well as montages with average reference are  considered default also     Analysis         Marrow Band Definition Broad Band Definition Models    Spectral Resolution  0 390625 Hz Bands nt Freg  iHz   Final Freg  Hz  EY Vena benn pedia  Fereme zis    Initial Frequency   0 781250 Hz  3 91 rte W Broad Band Spectral Parameters Z Transf     Final Frequency  19  14063 Hz    Monkagets         W Marrow Band Spectral Parameters 2 Transf        W Broad Band Spectral Parameters    zal 12 50    12 59 19 14         Overwrite previous models    1020   10 20 System  1 32   Channels 1 to 32    64   64 channels Calculate    AUSTRAL   Montaje de los Australian   Add Band   Delete Band      1 56 19 14    Restore Defaults         States Calculate From  do  emmo    e gee pecording  4   eves closed 25  512      i  Marrow Band Spectral Parameters  DIE   eves opened E  512    lc   hyperventilation 1 6  512  B       CATWDATAALAR       In the group Models the models available for calculation are selected  The  CROSS model is always calculated  The states desired for calculating  models are selected in the group States  Only states with windows marked  for analysis in the EEG recording appear in the group  The Id column has  the letter identifying the state as well as its description  The column  Segment Inf
25. mmand allows importing EEG recordings stored in other formats  for analysis  These EEG recordings can be in EEG and CNT Neuroscan    formats as well as ASCII files  When activated  the command presents a  dialog for selecting the filename and file type     The text  ASCII  files must have the following characteristics     e as many lines as bursts or samples in the file       Neuroscan is a registered trademark and protected property of its rightful  owner     User   s Manual  QEEGT  Version 5 0 21    EEG Quantitative Analysis    22    e every line will have separated by spaces all the values present in the  burst  As many as EEG recorded channels     e at the beginning of the file  additional lines can be present but will be  ignored when processed     After selecting the file data type and filename  a dialog is presented for  entering information needed about the EEG to import     Patient and recording data    Mame    Gender  Male  gt   Import    Birth date    1 7 7980    Age  22 28  Cancel    Record date    4 15 2002    Montage  1020   10 20 System       Sampling rate   200 Hz Help    State  A   eyes closed      Lines to skip  E       The fields Name  Gender  Birth date and Recording date allow entering the  minimum information for filling patient   s clinical data  The Lines to skip  field allow to set the number of lines that will be ignores at the beginning  of the file  With the Montage field is possible to select a montage for  describing the EEG recording to be impor
26. montage selected    At least one montage must be selected for calculation     No valid montages for processing    None of the selected montages is valid for calculation     No norm available for X    No norm available for X combination in the module     No windows marked for analysis    The loaded study doesn   t have any analysis window marked for  calculation     Palette files not found    Palette files not found in the application path     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Invalid number of segments for state X    The number of segments available for calculation for X state is not  enough for calculation     Invalid Band name    Band name not defined     Invalid filename    The MAP  RAINBOW and BIPOLAR palettes can not be changed  because  they are used by default in the module     Invalid spectral resolution    The spectral resolution to be set is not valid because is not a valid number  or is less than O     Invalid paper size    Paper size selected for printing doesn t have the minimum size needed     Threshold must be greater than O    In the Threshold scale type  the value defined must be greater than O     Invalid value    The edited value is not a valid number     X is needed for executing the program     The application will be aborted because the X file is not present     X is not the main program    The X application can not be executed as main program     43    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Montages availables for comparison with EEG Norms    EEG recordings must be ca
27. normal population  The sign of the Z magnitude indicates  direction of possible abnormality  excess     or defect      If the observed  parameter follows a Normal distribution probability  Z values will be inside  the interval   1 96  1 96  with a 0 95 probability when the subject is  normal     For a correct comparison with the norm  Z transform calculation   is very  important to follow the reguirements for such comparison   see Comparison  with EEG norms      EEG Quantitative Analysis    The shorthands corresponding to the models calculated with Z transform  are  ZCROSS and ZBBSP respectively for each of the previous described    models     Broad Band Measures Table  Measure Shorthand   Meaning    Absolute AP Is the measured energy for each derivation on  Power every frequency band  calculated in uV2 Hz   Relative RP Express proportion of Absolute Power in the  Power band with respect to the Total Absolute Power  for every derivation  it indicates contribution  from every band to the total power     Mean Is the gravity center for band  expressed in       Frequency Hz     The module also calculates the Geometric Power  GP  which represents the  EEG mean energy for every derivation and frequency  This magnitude is a  scale factor depending on the frequency band  decrease with age and  explain more than 40   of the EEG variance in subjects with the same age   Correction with this factor is convenient for decreasing data variability  without loosing its temporal and spatial st
28. o  has the number of valid segments available for calculating  models  Between parentheses the segment length is presented in this  field  The number of valid segments as well as the segment length  depends on the EEG sampling period and the spectral resolution as    EEG Quantitative Analysis    explained before  see Spectral Resolution parameter   If the spectral  resolution is changed the segment information is updated accordingly in  the group States     In the group Calculate from the starting point for calculating is selected   There are 3 possibilities depending on the specific situation  calculate  from EEG recording  calculate from a previous calculated CROSS model  and calculate from an imported file  if the Import EGG command was used  previously   When calculating from a CROSS model  the Narrow Band  parameters are taken from the starting model and thus the parameter s  edition is disabled  In this case the group States only shows the state  identifier  because the segment information doesn t have any sense     When the option Overwrite previous models is selected  all the models  calculated in previous working sessions are deleted     The Calculate button starts the calculation process  which can be aborted  by using the Cancel button present in the progress window  When the  process is finished  the user is prompted to load the recently calculated  models  Moreover  with the Analysis log command  View menu  is possible  to get information about the calculation pr
29. ocess     Narrow Band 10 20    In this work sheet the CROSS and ZCROSS models are visualized  with the  restriction that only the channels belonging to the 10 20 system are  shown  The windows where the spectra are plotted are painted with a  spatial distribution corresponding to the 10 20 system  On every window  the derivation name as well as the current value of the vertical cursor are  displayed  The horizontal axis shows divisions indicating the limits for the  classic bands  6 0 0 B   The vertical cursor can be placed over the different  frequencies by using the left button mouse or by selecting the desired  frequency in the Frequency box selector  The topographic map shows the  distribution corresponding to the current frequency  Initially the map is  scaled to the best possible fit over the whole spectra  see command Scale  map     There are options at the information bar for selecting the state to  visualize  the transformation  raw or Z  as well as PG correction   Depending on the calculated variants for the loaded study  these options  will have available the different possibilities     User s Manual  QEEGT  Versi  n 5 0 11    EEG Quantitative Analysis    When the Z transform is selected  two horizontal bars are plotted for every  window indicating the thresholds  1 96 and 1 96 respectively    When the raw transformation is selected it is possible also to plot the  mean and standard deviations of the normal population over the current  spectra  This is possible onl
30. of Variable  Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography  VARETA  en Clinical  Electroencephalography  Vol  32  No  2 pp 47 61 de Bosch Bayard J    Valdes_Sosa P  y cols     DISCLAIMER         BET software is designed for use in medical research  it has not the status  of a medical product  i e  it is not allowed to use it directly or indirectly for  medical prevention  diagnostic and or treatment of humans  It is solely  for academic use in the field of scientific research  NEURONIC S A  does  not grant warranty or assume liability for the results of using the software    The Z Transform is calculated for the ETC and ETCBG models ONLY with the  average reference montage     49    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Screen description    When the application starts  the working screen is presented  The module  has a work area with 7 work sheets  a horizontal menu  tool bar   information bar and status bar  At the beginning of the working session  the last analyzed study is loaded     Horizontal Menu    Information bar       Application title              O EEG Quantitative Analysis  File Edit View Patient Tools Help    wer QAWAY adev    las   state        Raw v   GP applied     Only Cortex      Analysis Marrow Band 10 20   Broad Band   Broad Band State arrow Band 10 20 Comparison   All Map views      Work area       Status bar    MM    C  TWDATAVALAR__ 0             Tool bar  At the toolbar the following commands will be added     sa  View in BET Viewer    A more detailed explanation will
31. ording to the 10 20 system  Fpl  Fp2  F3  F4  C3  C4  P3  P4  O1  O2   F7  F8  T3  T4  T5  TO  FZ  CZ  PZ  or by using the recording caps  supported by the system  see Montages availables for comparison with  EEG Norms   As reference linked ear lobes should be used  A12    Recording impedance should not be higher than 5 kQ  The recording   s  quality should be monitored constantly  and the recording time should be  divided in the following way     Eyes closed    Recording time should be long enough to obtain minute and half artifact  free recording  equivalent to 24 seconds  Daily practice indicates an  average recording time between 3 5 and 5 minutes in this state     Eyes open   Recording time should be long enough to carry out the following  procedure 6 times  open eyes during 12 seconds followed by another 12  seconds with eyes closed  One to two minutes should be enough to get 12  segments ready for calculation  artifacts free     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Sampling period should be 5 or 10 ms     With these characteristics  the obtained EEG recording can be used to  compare with the EEG norms  A good segment selection assures higher  accuracy for determining the distance between the subject and the normal  values for his age     After installing TrackWalker  the default definitions allow the comparison  with norms  These definitions are     Spectral Resolution 0 390625 Hz  Low Cut frequency 0 78 Hz  High Cut frequency 19 14 Hz    Low Cut Frequency   High Cut frequency
32. page the following information is present in the page header     work sheet name  application name  logo  patient name  age   recording date and model filename     Print     amp   amp  Ctrl P    26       Prints work sheets  see Print preview  as well as Clinical Data and  Conclusions  When activated a dialog is presented for selecting the    elements to print        Print    Patient  Paper use    We Clinical Data f Same page    We Conclusions f   Different pages      Analysis    corel   toe      The group Paper use is enabled when Clinical Data and Conclusions are    selected and also the Conclusions were edited using WordPad     Conclusions  see command Conclusions  were edited with Microsoft Word    then always different pages will be used     If Analysis is selected  work sheets  another dialog is presented for setting    the printer options as well as the pages to print     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Print 2 leg    Printer    Hame  HP Laserlet 3300 Seres PCL E ie   Properties         Status  Ready  Type  HF Lazerndet 3300 Seres PLL E  Wher  JP 150102195     Comment    Print to file         Print range   Copies     i  All Humber of copies  1    C Pages from  1 to  5    1    3   Selection pi pi pi    Cancel         When the option Selection is set at the group Print range  only the current  work sheet will be printed  For selecting the work sheets by number the  same convention explained in the Print Preview command should be used   After pressing Ok the printing begins  
33. road Band Spectral Parameters 2 Transf   Alpha 7 81 12 50 i Electrical Tomography    Montage s    lw Electrical Tomography Z Transf     AUSTRALIS   Montaje de los Austra  Beta 12 59 19 14        AVERAGE    10 20 System Total 1 56 19 14 M Only Cortex  AVERAGENS   10 20 System Iw Cortex  amp  Basal Ganglia    CMR   10 20 System CMR     CMRE4NEW   64 channels new  w Add Band   Delete Band      Overwrite previous models  Restore Defaults    iw Use average brain  States Calculate From    Lead Field Filename  Segment Info    FEE Rewnetac       eyes closed 25  512  EE         Desses opened 8  512  f   Narrow Band Spectral Parameters  Calculate          Jc   hyperventilation i 6  5123    a       CATWDATAVALAR    User   s Manual  QEEGT  Version 5 0 51    EEG Quantitative Analysis    la    In the group Models  the models available for calculation are selected   When the Z transform of any electrical tomography modality is selected   then the Z transform  ZCROSS  is selected automatically     When the option Use average brain is not selected  the electrical  tomography will be calculated over an individual brain instead of the  average brain  In this case the edit box Lead Field filename must be used  for indicating the lead field file to use for calculating the electrical  tomography  The option will be enabled only when not using average  brain  The Lead Field is calculated outside the EEG Quantitative Analysis     The ETC and ETCBG  as well as its Z Transforms  will be calculated onl
34. rried out with the 10 20 montage  or a subset  from that montage  or with a montage given by the EEG caps  64 and 128  channels  supported by the system for being able to be compared with the  EEG norms  The following figure shows the naming convention used by  the system for montages with multiple channels  EEG caps         The figure shows the 118 channels for whom the EEG norms are available   Channles are named by an ordinal number between 1 and 120  56 and 57  are not available for comparison with norms   The following table shows  the correspondence between the naming convention used by the system  and other naming systems     44    Naming system    convention    O    CON DO WU A WW N      W N N N N N N NNN N FF   ma   27                oO       O    o N OAU A U   N   lt  O O O NOUN HRW N      Other naming  systems convention    Fpl  Fp2  F3  F4  C3  C4  P3  P4  Ol  O2  F7  F8  T3  77  T4  T8  P7  P8  FZ  CZ  PZ  FI  F2    P1  P2  AF3  AF4    Naming system    61  62  63  64  65  66  67  68  69  70  71   2   3  74  75  76  77  78  79  80  81  82  83  84  85  86  87  88  89  90    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Other naming    FPZ  AFZ  FCZ  CPZ  POZ  OZ    PO3  PO4    CP   CP2    CP3    systems    45    EEG Quantitative Analysis    46    31  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39  40  41  42  43  44  45  46  47  48  49  50  5   52  53  54  55  56  57  58  59  60    FT   FT8    P5  P6  FC5  FC6    C5  Co    FEZ  TP8  PO5  PO6    AF7  AF8    9   92  93  94  95  96  97  98  99  100  
35. rtrait    Source    Auto Select    Landscape  Network      Cancel         Print preview    8 L      This command replaces the main window of the application for a window  where a preview shows the work sheets as they would look on paper when    25    EEG Quantitative Analysis    printed  The window has a toolbar with commands for adjusting the  preview     26    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Print preview tool bar    One page activation  Previ  iis Next Zoom   selection  page page  Two page Full screen activation  Current sactivation    page s   indicator           Print all pages       Close    dom   page s   1 OO    ico      Ej 4   Close preview       O EEG Quantitative Analysis       Narrow Band 10 20 Track Walker 5 0    NEURON sa    Name  AMA OCIA ALPAREZ RAMIREZ Age  40 61 Recording date  7 Mar 2001 Study ALR    Frequency   7 813 Hz    eyes closed  GP 7813 H   pH    FZ  AR  0 73       All the work sheets are printed using only one page excluding the Narrow  Band All sheet that could take more than one page depending on the  number of channels  For identifying with the numbers every work sheet  the following convention is used  1  Narrow Band 10 20  2  Broad Band   3  Broad band state  4  Narrow Band 10 20 Comparison and 5  Narrow  Band All that could take several pages if needed     EEG Quantitative Analysis         Depending on the mouse cursor image  EN or a   when pressing the left    button mouse the page zoom will be increased or decreased respectively     For every 
36. ructure  Using this scale factor  decrease the possibility for taking as abnormal  increments on spectral  energy in patients with wide basal EEG  or sensible decrements for such  energy in patients with low amplitude EEG  At the same time  allows that  more details can be obtained about Z transform topographic distribution  by using scales with energy absolute values substantially lower than  generated with CROSS and BBSP models     The GP is stored for every model as another measure allowing the model  observation with or without it  For BBSP models it is only applied to  Absolute Power measure     All analysis results are stored in files with  MOD extension corresponding  to the different calculated models  Files generated have the following  naming convention     EEG Quantitative Analysis     lt study name gt   lt model shorthand gt   lt state gt   lt order number gt  MOD    where     lt study name gt  original name of the study when the EEG was recorded    lt model shorthand gt  shorthands already described for every model    lt state gt  letter  A B C      corresponding to the processed state      lt order number gt  indicates the number assigned to the analysis result for  every working session  With this mechanism  it is possible to keep old  results obtained in previous analysis sessions     Comparison with EEG norms    The EEG should be recorded with the subject in a resting state  dec  bito  supine position or seated   The recording electrodes should be placed  acc
37. s    See explanation on Conclusions on EEG Recording Chapter Il     35    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Tools       Mark all    Marks simultaneously all the maps in the active work sheet     Unmark all    Unmark simultaneously all the maps in the active work sheet     Show hide channels    This command shows the channels positions over the maps  It is a toggle   when the positions are shown  using the command hides them     Difference    This command carries out the difference between two maps  When  activated shows a submenu with the two possible subtractions  The result  is presented in a floating window map     State Difference    The command is enabled only at the Broad Band State work sheet  When  activated a subtraction is carried out between all the states present in the  sheet and the state marked  The map windows in the sheet are replaced  by the new maps obtained with the subtraction     Movie        36    This command makes a movie at the Narrow Band 10 20  Narrow Band  10 20 Comparison and Narrow Band All sheets  The movie can be  generated online or can be stored in an AVI file depending on the options  set at the command Options Movie     When the movie is carried out online  all the frequencies selected  according to the settings  initial and last frame  in Options Movie are  displayed in sequence  The movie is carried out using all the elements  present in the active work sheet  When activated a small dialog is  presented for allowing pausing and speed changes 
38. sed for calculating  The valid segment  length  SL  can be defined as  SL   SP SR  where SP  is the EEG sampling period  Hz  and SR is the  spectral resolution     Initial Frequency  Defines the first spectral frequency to obtain  It  should be higher or equal to the low cut frequency  used in the EEG recording  Besides can not be less  than the spectral resolution used     Final Frequency Defines the last spectral frequency to obtain  It  should be less or equal to the high cut frequency  used in the EEG recording        The user can change freely the parameter   s values  always keeping in  mind the restrictions already explained  but in order to be able to  calculate Z transform the default values must be used    In the Montage list all the available montages in TrackWalker are  displayed  The RECORD montage is always present and indicates the  original montage used for EEG recording  As many montages as desired  can be selected for calculating the models     All the files  models  generated for each montage will have a common order    EEG Quantitative Analysis    10    number     In the group Broad Band definition the parameters for calculating BBSP  and ZBBSP models are set  The user can define the bands and its limits   The bands can be overlapped and the Total band doesn   t have to cover  the full range defined by the others  As in Narrow Band definition default  values must be used in order to be able to calculate Z transform  The  buttons Add Band and Delete Band al
39. standard deviations were obtained from regression equations against  age in a normal population  The sign of the Z magnitude indicates       For obtaining EEG Electrical Tomography the TrackWalker distributor should be  contacted     EEG Quantitative Analysis         direction of possible abnormality  excess     or defect      If the observed  parameter follows a Normal distribution probability  Z values will be inside  the interval   1 96  1 96  with a 0 95 probability when the subject is  normal     For a correct comparison with the norm  Z transform calculation   is very  important to follow the reguirements for such comparison   see Comparison  with EEG norms in Chapter V      The shorthands corresponding to the models calculated with Z transform  are  ZETC and ZETCBG respectively for each of the previous described  models     The module also calculates the Geometric Power  GP  which represents the  EEG mean energy for every derivation and frequency  This magnitude is a  scale factor depending on the frequency band  decrease with age and  explain more than 40   of the EEG variance in subjects with the same age   Correction with this factor is convenient for decreasing data variability  without loosing its temporal and spatial structure  Using this scale factor  decrease the possibility for taking as abnormal  increments on spectral  energy in patients with wide basal EEG  or sensible decrements for such  energy in patients with low amplitude EEG  The GP is stored for ever
40. t content to a bitmap file  When activated a  dialog for selecting the filename is presented  The dialog gives the  possibility to inspect using a preview files already present on disk     34    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Vie    Toolbar    This command works as a toggle  when turned on the toolbar is visualized  under the horizontal menu of the application  otherwise the toolbar is  hidden  leaving more space on screen for work sheets visualization     Status bar    This command works as a toggle  when turned on the status bar is  visualized in the bottom of the main window application  otherwise the  status bar is hidden  leaving more space on screen for work sheets  visualization     Information bar    This command works as a toggle  when turned on the information bar is  visualized below the toolbar  otherwise it is hidden  leaving more space on  screen for work sheets visualization     Full screen    When activated  the window application is maximized  hiding the  horizontal menu  the toolbar  the information bar and the status bar   leaving more space on screen for work sheets visualization  To return to  normal modem the Esc key should be pressed     Analysis Log    This command is enabled after every calculation in the Analysis work  sheet  Shows all the incidences during the calculation process  errors   warnings  suggestions  etc   as well as the models generated     Patient    Clinical Data  See explanation on Clinical Data on EEG Recording Chapter Il   Conclusion
41. tabs is presented     The tab Movie shows two combo boxes for selecting the initial and last  frame to use in the movie  When the check box Generate AVI file is set  for  selecting if the movie is carried out on line or not  another two check  boxes are enabled for selecting which elements  including the electrical  tomography  will be present in the movie as well as a combo box for  setting the speed     Options    Appearance Movie   Misc          if Generate AVI File    Initial Frame  0 781 Hz    W Animate Map    W Animate spectra    Last Frame   19 1 41 He    W Animate tomography  Frame rate  15 Fps           EEG Quantitative Analysis    Error messages    No tomography available for X    Electrical tomography calculation is not available for the X combination     56    
42. ted  If the right montage is not  available it is possible to create a new one with the option existent for  that in the combo box  In this case the dialog for creating and editing  montages is presented  see Montage in EEG Recording chapter   The  Import button stats the importation process  After that the Analysis work  sheet can be used for calculating  This command doesn   t make a  conversion to the PLG native format used in TrackWalker     When importing from Neuroscan formats  the system will read all the  needed information from the original files  If data relative to age  birth  date and recording date are not filled adequately  a warning message will  be issued  In this case the user must use the Clinical Data command  in  the Patient menu  for correcting the information  The only one data that  should be entered by the user during the importing process is the  wakefulness state of the patient during the recording     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Export to text    This command exports to text  ASCII  files the content of the different  models generated with the module  In this way the processing results can  be used in statistical packages  reports  papers  etc  When activated a  dialog is presented for selecting the models to be exported as well as its    type        Select models to export  Look ir   twdata      ek    Ej ALAR  CROS5 4 0 MOD Ej ALAR  CROS5 B 5  MOD  Es ALAR  CROSS 4 1  MOD E ALAR  CROS5 B 6  MOL  Ej ALAR  CROSS 4 2  MOD Ej ALAR ROSS MOD   Ea ALAR R
43. the module  In this way the processing results can  be used in statistical packages  reports  papers  etc  When activated a  dialog is presented for selecting the models to be exported as well as its  type    The selected models must belong to the same model type and the  measures to export must have also the same dimension for every file   Once the desired files are selected  a dialog for selecting items to export  is presented  Depending on the model type different information appears  on the dialog  The figure shows the dialog for selecting items in the ETC  and ETCBG models        Select items to export    Frequencies SOUrCES    Export  Cancel    Help      GP applied      New line per value       55    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Edit    Scale tomography    With this command the electrical tomography can be scaled  When  activated a dialog for selecting the scale and its parameters is presented     There are 2 scale types for tomography     Scale Meaning    MaxMin In this scale type the values minimum and maximum for  scaling the tomography are defined  When this type is  selected two edit boxes are shown  Minimum and Maximum  for editing the values  The toggle Best Fit automatically  adjusts the scale based on the extreme values of the    tomography    Threshold  With this scale type is possible to focus on the positive and  negative values in the tomography  When this type is selected  the edit box Threshold is shown to define the threshold that  will be used as the sc
44. ve Analysis has a status bar for showing information about  the study being analyzed     Map derivation value  Open study  active     a    DATWDATAMALAR     ea 4 81 g DATWD atat ALAR dd AA    Map derivation Comparison study       name    Information bar    EEG Quantitative Analysis has an information bar with options relative to  the current work sheet     Band measure  State ray    Raw    absolute Power    GP applied       Active transformation   raw or Z           Work sheets    EEG Quantitative Analysis has 7 works sheets  Analysis  Narrow Band  10 20  Broad Band  Broad Band State  Narrow Band 10 20 Comparison   Narrow Band All and All Map Views  At the beginning of the working  session the last analyzed study is loaded  Depending on the models  calculated  the different work sheets are enabled or not  If any model is  found for the study  only the Analysis work sheet is present  If there is not    EEG Quantitative Analysis    any active study  then the Open Study command should be used for  activating one     Analysis         This work sheet carries out the model   s calculation  In the group Narrow  Band definition the parameters for calculating CROSS and ZCROSS models  are set  The following table explains the parameters     Parameter Meaning    Spectral Defines the equivalent parameter to the sampling   Resolution period  rate  in the time domain  but for the  frequency domain in this case  The value given to  this parameter has implications about the segment  length u
45. y  model as another measure allowing the model observation with or without  it     What Electrical Tomography is     46    Brain Electrical Tomography  BET  is obtained by integrating functional  information given by EEG and the anatomical information provided by  anatomical tomographies like Magnetic Resonance Imaging  MRD  With  BET it is possible to localize spatially the sources of several processes   physiological and originated by dysfunctions of the Central Nervous  system     For obtaining the BET it is necessary to solve the EEG inverse problem  It  means to assess the localization of the sources of electrical activity by  using the electrical activity recorded at the scalp  By using complex  calculation methods  it is possible to solve this problem using as input  data the recorded electrical activity  the channel   s coordinates over the  scalp  as well as the anatomical information provided by anatomical  tomography  This solution is represented by means of functional images     EEG Quantitative Analysis    BET calculated with EEG Quantitative Analysis has two main  characteristics       It is calculated in the frequency domain using as input the information  contained in the cross spectral matrices  CROSS model        It is calculated over an average brain obtained at the Montreal  Neurological Institute over a sample of 305 normal MRI brains     More details about the methodology can be found in  3D Statistical  Parametric Mapping of EEG source spectra by means 
46. y if the  full 10 20 montage  all 19 channels  is included in the calculation montage  If  any channel  from 10 20 montage  is missing there won t be any calculation     Narrow Band 10 20         52    In this work sheet the CROSS  ZCROSS  ETC  ZETC  ETCBG and ZETCBG  models are visualized  To the right of the work sheet the electrical  tomography will be plotted by using axial slices  The letters R and   at the  upper border indicate the right and left sides in the slices  By using the  scroll bar it is possible to make visible the slices not shown at the sheet   The tomography is scaled to the best possible fit over the whole spectra  using a MaxMin scale type     The electrical tomography can be displayed with higher resolution with the BET  Viewer system  see command View in BET Viewer     There are options at the information bar for selecting the state to  visualize  the transformation  raw or Z   PG correction as well as the  tomography type  Depending on the calculated variants for the loaded  study  these options will have available the different possibilities     EEG Quantitative Analysis    Narrow Band 10 20      Frequency    7   Mean    8 984 Hz   i   Std  Dev     F   AVR FZ  AVR  0 92 1 80  T3  AVR   CZ  AVR  0 27   1 63    TS  AVR   PZ  AWR  2 40 i 0 85    58 g 8    C  TWDATALALAR__ 0       rl When pressing the right button mouse over the different elements at the work  sheet a pop up menu will be displayed with the available commands for those  e ements    ce Wh
47. y if the loaded study can be compared with  the norms  The interval represented by the standard deviations is  obtained from adding and subtracting 1 96 to the mean spectra  corresponding to the age of the study     Narrow Band 10 20      Frequency  Fpl AMr 3 93 Fpe Aw   E Mean  8 594He   Han 120   pg std  Dev    1 92  GF 8 594 Hz pH  F7  AWR F3  AWR FZ  AWR F    AWR Fe  AWR  Ddr 0 69 1 24 1 16 1 40  T3  AYE T3  AYE Te  AVE T     AWF T4  AYE   0 04 0 64 1 00 0 356 0 95  TS  AWR P3 AVR PZ  AWR P    AWR TE  AVR  1 63 0 65 0 65 0 56 nai  COLAR 4 0  amp  8 OR  AVR  2 67 3 05     gt      CATWDATAALAR  O       T When pressing the right button mouse over the different elements at the work  sheet a pop up menu will be displayed with the available commands for those  elements    T When the mouse cursor is over the map the derivation name and its value are    Shown at the status bar     12    EEG Quantitative Analysis    Broad Band    In this work sheet the BBSP and ZBBSP models are visualized  From these  models are visualized using topographic maps 3 measures  Absolute  Power  Relative Power and Mean Frequency for every band calculated  The  maps are plotted on screen in matricial way  where the rows correspond  to the measures and the columns to the bands  The first row for every  measure shows the raw measure and the second one shows the Z  transform  There are options at the information bar for selecting the state  to visualize as well as PG correction  The raw measures are displa
48. yed  using a best fit data MaxMin scale and the Zs are displayed with a  Threshold scale with 3 0 as threshold value  see Scale map command      J  1 50 1 53    GF AP Delta pH  GP AP Theta peida    GP AP Alpha peida GP AP Beta    Broad Band                    11 67  GP AP Total uve Hz                                  J 3 50 3 50   3 50  3 50  3 50  GF AP Z Delta GP AP Z Theta GP AP 2 Alpha GP AP 2 Beta GP AP 2 Total  J 0 82  0 04 0 28  RF Delta RF Theta RF Alpha HP Beta  Di q  RF z Delta RF   Theta RF z Alpha RF z Beta  J 10 01 10 87  2 26 9 45 15 30 Ev   MF Delta Hz MF Theta MF Alpha Hz MF Beta Hz MF Total Hz  3 50 3 50 3 50   3 50  3 50 3 50  3 50       MF   Delta MF Z Theta MF z Alpha MF Beta MF Z Total       CATWDATAALAR  D    13    EEG Quantitative Analysis            If the left button mouse is pressed over the map window  the map can be  marked unmarked  There are several commands for working only over  marked maps  The marked map is identified by a colored frame  surrounding the map window     When pressing the right button mouse over the different elements at the work  sheet a pop up menu will be displayed with the available commands for those  e ements     When the mouse cursor is over the map the derivation name and its value are  shown at the status bar     Broad Band  State              14    In this work sheet the BBSP and ZBBSP models can be visualized also  but  here instead of displaying only the selected state  all the calculated states  for the loaded study
    
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