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Acqknowledge 4.1

Biopac Research Systems

ACQ 4.0
AcqKnowledge is an interactive, intuitive program that lets you instantly view, measure, analyze, and transform data. Perform complex data acquisition, stimulation, triggering and analyses using simple pull-down menus and dialogs—no need to learn a programming language or new protocol. Online analysis settings, filters, and transformations provide real-time feedback, or you can choose from a wide variety of off-line analysis tools. Multiple display options are available during and after acquisition—just click on an icon to flip between Chart, Scope, X/Y, Overlapped segments, Histogram, or FFT. The software also includes quality presentation capabilities.

AcqKnowledge 4 runs on AcqKnowledge data acquisition and analysis software for Windows OSWindows OS; click for Compatibility Table.

Whats new in AcqKnowledge 4.1 for Windows

Analysis Automation Routines
  - HRV algorithm improvements
  - HRV analysis QRS threshold percentage
  - ICG Analysis Output Options
  - Event-related EDA Analysis
  - Stim-response configuration enhancements
  - Digital Input to Stim Events
Media Capture (audio and/or video)
Module-based analog setup (prompts)
Measurements
  - Sum measurement
  - Measurement presets
Artifact Rejection functionality
Timed Reset for Integrate calculation and transformation
User Interface Enhancements
  - Analysis dialogs: consolidated parameters in a single dialog
  - Online averaging progress bar
  - Transformation history
  - Canceling Transformations & Transformation Progress Bar
  - Custom toolbars for transformations and analysis
  - Toolbar position retention and changes
  - Event tool enhancements
  - Typed event label drawing improvements
  - Choose MP150 Help Button
  - Button Transparency
  - Vertical axis scaling buttons
  - Long channel labels and units
  - Customizable Chart Track Dividers
  - Graph window tooltip improvements
  - Menu item tooltips

The following features have been added since AcqKnowledge 3.9.1 for Windows was released.
  • Specialized Analysis Packages
    • Detect and Classify Heartbeats
    • Locate ECG Complex Boundaries
    • Chaos Analysis—Detrended Fluctuation Analysis; Optimal Embedding Dimension; Optimal Time Delay; Plot Attractor; Correlation Coefficient
    • Electrodermal Activity—Derive Phasic EDA from Tonic; Event-related EDA Analysis; Locate SCRs
    • Electroencephalography—Compute Approximate Entropy; Delta Power Analysis; Derive Alpha-RMS; Derive EEG Frequency Bands; EEG Frequency Analysis; Remove EOG Artifacts
    • Electromyography—Derive Average Rectified EMG; Derive Integrated EMG; Derive Root Mean Square EMG; EMG Frequency & Power Analysis; Locate Muscle Activation
    • Ensemble Average
    • Epoch Analysis
    • Hemodynamic Analysis—Classifiers: ABP, LVP, MAP; Arterial Blood Pressure; ECG Interval Extraction; Left Ventricular Blood Pressure; Monophasic Action Potential; Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia
    • Impedance Cardiography Analysis—Adaptive template matching; C point location; Body Surface Area; Ideal Body Weight; ICG Analysis; VEPT; PEP Pre-ejection Period; dZ/dt Derive from Raw Z; dZ/dt Classifier: B, C, X, Y, and O Points; dZ/dt Remove Motion Artifacts
    • Magnetic Resonance Imaging—Artifact Frequency Removal; Artifact Projection Removal; Median Filter Artifact Removal; Signal Blanking
    • Neurophysiology—Amplitude Histograms; Classify Spikes; Average Action Potentials; Dwell Time Histograms; Generate Spike Trains
      Locate Spike Episodes; Find Overlapping Spike Episodes; Set Episode Width & Offset
    • Principal Component Denoising
    • Remove Trend
    • Respiration—Compliance & Resistance; Penh Analysis; Pulmonary Airflow
    • Spectral Subtraction
    • Stim-Response—Digital Input to Stim Events; Stim-Response Analysis
    • Waterfall Plot
    • Wavelet Denoising
  • Multichannel Event Marking System—Event marking system is now combined with Cycle/Peak Detector, allowing automated measurements around specific events and additional event marking based on measurements taken. For example, mark when a dose or task occurs and automatically measure and mark the maximum response.
  • Cycle (Peak) Detector interface—Advanced Cycle/Peak Detector combines with powerful new Event Marking System. Perform amplitude, time, or event-based measurements. New output options for measurements, averaging, events, clustering (K-means), and 3D surface (cycle data, histogram, FFT, and DWT).
  • Transformations
    • Most recently used transformation and analysis
    • Adaptive template matching transformation
    • Normalized Cross-correlation Template Transformation
    • Remove projection template
    • Delay transformation
    • Cubic spline resampling options
    • Spectrum analyzer/real-time FFT
  • Calculation Channels
    • Calculation metachannels—daisy-chain calculations, such as Filter and Difference, on one channel
    • Dynamic digital filter options
  • Measurements
    • Equation Generator/Expression enhancements—online and post-acquisition
    • Interpolated measurements
    • New measurement options to optimize event marking system
  • User Interface
    • Display and control of data
    • 3D data visualization
    • Replay data
    • Text annotations—add zest to your publication screen shots or annotate the file beyond marker notes
    • Print functions—adjust data range for printing; print waveform data in black
    • Adaptive scaling—vertical scale updates in real time to optimize data display
    • Grids—Friendly grid scaling; Flexible grid options Grid Tool
    • Balloon Help
    • Multiple levels of Undo
    • Jump tool
    • Rescale operations
    • Selection palette—place cursors at specific time points
    • Mouse scrollwheel support
    • Keyboard Shortcuts added (accelerator keys)
    • Cursor Tools Contextual Menu
  • Data processing
    • Large file support
    • Batch acquisitions
    • Multithreaded operation
  • File Formats
    • Excel Export (for reports with tabular data)
    • Save Selection As moved to File menu and updated: added = Wav, EDF, JPEG; removed = Metafile (*.WMF)
    • Open Mac AcqKnowledge 3 Graph
    • BSL file import
    • EDF file import and export
    • Igor Pro Experiment import/export
    • WAV file format import/export

    AcqKnowledge software is included with each MP150, MP36R and MP100 System (Acqknowledge 3.9 only) ; it can also be purchased separately. AcqKnowledge software is licensed for a single user for use on one MP System.

    To use multiple MP Systems, see our Site License Program.