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ACQKNOWLEDGE UPGRADE - WIN - UPG3
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AcqKnowledge Upgrade - Win

This upgrade to AcqKnowledge 4.1 is for registered users of AcqKnowledge 3.8.2-4.0 running BIOPAC for Windows OSWindows OS with an MP150 System; click for Compatibility Table

Registered AcqKnowledge 4.0 users will receive a free upgrade. Registered AcqKnowledge 3.9.x users will receive a $100 discount to be applied at time of shipment; a final confirmation will be sent after the order is processed. If you run XP or use an MP100, contact BIOPAC for compatible software.

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 guide setup)
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

Plus, new from AcqKnowledge 4.0

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
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Heart Rate Variability
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Gastric Wave (electrogastrogram) Analysis
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
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Digital Filters: Adaptive Filter; IIR Filter: Comb Band Stop
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Fourier Linear Combiners (FLC)
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Power Spectral Density
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) DWT Wavelet Transformation
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Expression logic additions:
    • Source—Sample, Pi, True (1), False (0)
    • Function—and, equal, if (2-way), less, not, or, xor (exclusive), ceiling, floor, is infinity, conditional (3-way), not a number, floating point modulus, measurement

 Calculation Channels

  • Calculation metachannels—daisy-chain calculations, such as Filter and Difference, on one channel
  • Dynamic digital filter options
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Filter: Comb Band Stop (base frequency and its overharmonics)
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Fourier Linear Combiners
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Adaptive Filter

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
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Paste/Copy Acquisition Settings
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Automatic MP Firmware Update

Data processing

  • Large file support
  • Batch acquisitions
  • Multithreaded operation

File Formats

  • Save As Excel Spreadsheet
  • 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
  • WAV file format import/export
  • (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Excel Export for reports with tabular data
  •  (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Igor Pro Experiment import/export
  •  (if upgrading from 3.8.2) Raw File Import/Export

AcqKnowledge software and upgrades are licensed for a single user for use on one MP System. When you order, please provide the serial number for the MP data acquisition unit from your MP System.

 

  • If you have multiple MP Systems, see our Site License program.
  • If you already have a Site License, contact BIOPAC for Site License Upgrade information.

 

Available in Your Native LanguageUse UPG3 to upgrade your translated software to AcqKnowledge 3.8.2, available in Chinese (simplified and traditional), French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Translations are provided based on the primary language of the buyer's locale (as indicated in the shipping address) and include the current English release. For special requests, please contact BIOPAC.

 

 

 


 
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