Elektra Beckum NM20600A-A User Manual

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MCE User’s Guide
MCE windows and dialogs
NM20600A-A
2004-05-17
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Table 4Controls in the Pre-processing dialog
Filter frame
The
[Lowpass filter]
 toggle selects the filter. You can
select the cutoff frequency or transition width with the
corresponding text fields or sliders.The values are in Hz.
Use the
[Freq. response]
and
[Impulse response]
but-
tons to see the effect of the filter.
Units: Hz
Baseline frame
The
[Baseline]
 toggle and the corresponding text field
select the baseline period used to remove the DC offset
and in automatic selection of the bad channels (p. 4).
The
[Detrend baseline]
 toggle and the corresponding
text field select the other baseline used for removing
slow drifts (p. 4).
Units: ms
[Decimate]
The toggle button and text field or slider select the
down-sampling ratio. See section “Decreasing the com-
puting time and file sizes” on page 5.
Units: samples
[Trim]
The toggle button and text field select the analysis
period.
Units: ms
[Bad channels]
The toggle button and text field set the bad channels.
Write the channel numbers to the text field with format
‘MEG #### #### #### ####’
[Apply projection]
If the toggle button is set, the noise projection defined in
the data file is applied to the data and calculations.
[Show all]
[Automatic]
The button resets the projection and bad channels to
default values. See “Bad channels and projections” on
page 6.
Preview frame
The buttons let you select either a single channel or filter
properties in the preview plot
Preview plot
Shows the selected information; original data in red and
processed data in blue. Left mouse button zooms in the
image, the
[rescale]
 button reverts to automatic scaling.
X-axis units: ms in Channel and Impulse response
mode, Hz in freq. response mode.
Y-axis units: fT for magnetometers, fT/cm for gradiom-
eters.
[Cancel]
Closes the window
[OK]
Applies the new values and closes the window