MCE User’s Guide

 

MCE windows and dialogs

 

Table 4

Controls 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]

 

Opens the MEG data -dialog (p. 26).

 

 

 

 

[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

 

 

 

 

 

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