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Respiratory [Area of Study]

Biopac Science Lab comes with one lesson focused on respiration: Lesson 12 — Respiration I Apnea In Lesson 12, students observe physiologic modifications of the respiratory cycle associated with voluntarily…

Respiratory and Pulmonary Function – Animal [Area of Study]

The BSL System provides an excellent introduction to Respiratory System & Pulmonary Function volumes and capacities, respiratory rates, breathing, and ventilation. Display and/or print a clinical grid on the data…

Respiratory and Pulmonary Function – Biology [Area of Study]

Students can record the pattern of breathing as well as perform comprehensive cardiopulmonary tests. There are lessons for determining tidal volumes and lung capacities, including FEV1, 2, 3 and MVV, plus…

Respiratory and Pulmonary Function – Exercise [Area of Study]

The BSL includes a range of experiments for pulmonary function and gas analysis studies. Detailed lessons guide students through the classical pulmonary function tests, including tidal volume, inspiratory capacity, expiratory…

Respiratory and Pulmonary Function – Human [Area of Study]

The BSL provides an excellent introduction to volumes and capacities, respiratory flow rates, breathing mechanics, and ventilation. Display and/or print a clinical grid on the data for effective interpretation and…

Respiratory and Pulmonary Function – Pharm. [Area of Study]

The BSL includes detailed lessons that include measurements of tidal volume, inspiratory capacity, expiratory capacity, functional residual capacity, vital capacity, total lung capacity, forced expiratory volume and maximal voluntary ventilation.…

Respiratory Exchange Ratio [Advanced Feature]

The Respiratory Exchange Ratio (RER) is determined by dividing VCO2 produced by VO2 consumed. The measurement is very similar to the setup required for VO2 consumption, except that the produced…

Respiratory Gas Analysis – Breath-by-breath [Advanced Feature]

Use AcqKnowledge with BIOPAC’s specially-designed O2 and CO2 modules for quick, accurate respiratory gas analysis. For breath-by-breath respiratory gas analysis, it is important to identify the response time of the gas…

Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA) Analysis [Advanced Feature]

AcqKnowledge® includes a fully automated Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA) analysis routine that measures the maximum and minimum changes in heart rate during respiration and reports the difference between the two…

Rheumatology [Advanced Feature]

Research the micro-vascular blood flow changes resulting from different rheumatic disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis, Raynauds phenomenon and connective tissue disease. For investigations of Raynauds phenomenon, use the digit probe…

RMSSD for HRV Analysis [Advanced Feature]

Root Mean Square of the Successive Differences (RMSSD) is one of a few time-domain tools used to assess heart rate variability, the successive differences being neighboring RR intervals. The automated…

Saccadic Eye Movements [Advanced Feature]

Saccadic eye movement can be recorded from a seated subject reading text from a book while the subjects head remains relatively still and relaxed. As the subject tracks across the…

Scent Delivery in Virtual Reality [Advanced Feature]

Use Scent Delivery in Virtual Reality for enhanced user experience, olfactory research, marketing research, and similar applications. The Scent Delivery System projects scents on cue for a predetermined time and…

Script – Copy markers from channel to channel [Advanced Feature]

The BIOPAC Basic Script “CopyMarkers” can be used to automate the process of copying markers from one channel to another; both channels have to be of the same length and…

Script – ID codes for Event Markers [Advanced Feature]

The attached document contains a table with event id codes that can be referenced when using BIOPAC Basic Scripting to write scripts using the Find Cycle tool. They are usually…

Scripting [Application]

Customize acquisitions, display, and UI, automate analysis routines, perform batch analyses, and expedite your research time to publish faster! No experience required.

Seizure Detection [Advanced Feature]

Automatically Identify, Mark, and Report Seizure Episodes in Small Animal EEG Data AcqKnowledge now includes an automated EEG seizure detection routine that employs a spike frequency technique to identify seizures.…

Sexual Arousal Studies [Advanced Feature]

Monitor a variety of physiological sexual arousal parameters from male and female subjects including penile plethysmography (phallometry) using a TSD205 PNPG transducer or vaginal plethysmography (VPG) using a VPG transducer,…

Signal Analysis and Processing – BME [Area of Study]

The BSL software has an extensive library of signal processing functions permitting graphical insight to analytical methods. The software can demonstrate the procedure and consequences associated with simple to complex…

Signal Averaging [Advanced Feature]

Remove background noise and extract the signal of interest with the on-line signal-averaging mode. Use the Preferences to set the sweep duration and the number of averaging trials. Specify artifact…

Single Channel Analysis [Advanced Feature]

Use the amplitude histogram function in AcqKnowledge to inspect the raw data from a single ion channel to determine if multiple channels are present, and use the threshold function to…

Single-Fiber EMG [Advanced Feature]

Record and analyze single-fiber potentials with a concentric needle electrode (EL451). Set the EMG100C to a 100 Hz – 5 kHz recording bandwidth. For improved rejection of low frequency background…

Skin Conductance Response Analysis [Advanced Feature]

Skin Conductance Response (SCR) Analysis AcqKnowledge includes a fully automated skin conductance response (SCR) scoring system. The software will transform skin conductance level (SCL) data to provide a skin conductance response…

Sleep Studies [Application]

Long term recordings with up to 16 channels of data. Record EEG, EOG, EMG, respiration, temp., sound, limb position and more. Filter out EEG frequencies to score sleep stages.

Small Animal (Rat) Noninvasive Blood Pressure [Advanced Feature]

Measure noninvasive blood pressure from rats, mice and other small animals using the NIBP200A or the NIBP250. The NIBP200A incorporates a built-in pump that automatically inflates the blood pressure cuff to…

Software API Option – BME [Area of Study]

Use the software application program interface (ACKAPI ) to develop your own analysis programs to read the BIOPAC file format.

Software-Controlled Stimulator [Advanced Feature]

Use the guided setup features in the AcqKnowledge® Stimulator dialog to design visual, auditory, electrical (current/voltage), somatosensory, stimulation paradigms. BIOPAC electrical stimulators are suitable for Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS), Functional Electrical…

Somatosensory Evoked Response (SER) [Advanced Feature]

BIOPAC provides hardware and software tools for recording and analyzing Somatosensory Evoked Responses (SSER). AcqKnowledge® and the MP System can deliver tactile stimulation through the TSD190 Haptic Stimulator Transducer. The…

Spectral Analysis [Advanced Feature]

Use AcqKnowledge to obtain the power spectrum of the EEG. The power spectrum indicates the power of each frequency component present in the source time domain waveform. Perform power spectral…

Spike Counting [Advanced Feature]

The Peak detection function will isolate individual EEG spikes, measure and count them, and enter the result into the Journal file. Select the measurements desired and the software will do…

SpO2 Analysis [Advanced Feature]

BIOPAC® has a range of pulse oximeter devices for human and animal, and also MRI applications. AcqKnowledge® software automatically identifies points in the sleep record where the SpO2 level has…

Startle Eye Blink Tests [Advanced Feature]

Use the stimulator with the OUT100 headphones to present auditory stimuli for classic startle response measurements. Record eye blinks (facial EMG) and use AcqKnowledge to integrate the recorded fEMG in real…

Stellar Telemetry [Advanced Feature]

Stellar telemetry records blood pressure, biopotential, temperature and activity data from multiple animals in the same area – multiple animals in the same cage or enclosure. The radio frequency animal…

Stim-Response | Virtual Reality [Application]

Synchronize events from a virtual world with physiological data from an MP150 system. Use feedback loops for greater control and automation—change the VR world in real time.

Stimulator – Software Controls in AcqKnowledge [Advanced Feature]

Use the graphical setup features in the AcqKnowledge Stimulator dialog to design the appropriate stimulus. The stimulator software allows you to control external stimulators for auditory and visual stimulation. The…

Stimulus Presentation Event Marking [Advanced Feature]

AcqKnowledge® includes a fully automated event driven data reduction program for Event-Related Potentials (ERP) and other stimulus-response (S-R) applications. The feature comprises two tools: Digital input to stim events and…

Stimulus Presentation with fNIR [Advanced Feature]

The fNIR100 series of stand-alone functional brain imaging systems provide users with an in-lab assessment of cognitive function. They eliminates a great many of the drawbacks of a functional MRI. The…

Stimulus-Response MP40 [Area of Study]

Biopac Science Lab with the stimulus response kit comes with one lesson focused on stimulus response: Lesson 11 — Reaction Time Fixed and Pseudo-random Intervals Lesson 11 demonstrates the effect…

Subject Mobility [Advanced Feature]

BIOPAC® has several options that allow for the collection of physiological data from mobile subjects, including wireless BioNomadix® Transmitters/Receivers and Loggers, Mobita® Systems, BioHarness® physiological monitoring devices, and B-Alert X10…

Surface EMG [Advanced Feature]

BIOPAC offers a variety of surface EMG (sEMG) recording and analysis options. sEMG data can be recorded with reusable or disposable surface EMG electrodes sent to a wired, wireless, or…

Synchronize With Video Capture [Advanced Feature]

Media functionality provides tight synchronization between a video recording of a subject and their physiological data.

tDCS/tACS transcranial current stimulation [Advanced Feature]

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), High Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS), and Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) are forms of electrical stimulation to effect neuro-modulation in the brain. These…

Template Analysis [Advanced Feature]

The Template functions allow users to isolate abnormal ECG signals within the electrocardiogram recording. Select a representative ECG complex to create the template and AcqKnowledge will determine the template’s Correlation,…

Tissue Bath Monitoring [Advanced Feature]

Record and analyze tissue bath preparations. The TSD105A and TSD125 Series force transducers work down to the milligram range and will record responses from small aortic rings to much larger…

Tissue Conductance Measurement [Advanced Feature]

Tissue conductance measurements can be performed with the MCE100C using either AC or DC excitation currents. Use surface, needle or micro-electrodes to interface to the tissue. Use four electrodes to…

Tissue Magnitude and Phase Modeling [Advanced Feature]

The EBI100C measures tissue impedance magnitude and phase simultaneously at any of four operational frequencies (12.5, 25, 50 and 100kHz) for multi-frequency bioimpedance analysis (MFBIA). Accordingly, the EBI100C can be…

Tissue Resistance and Reactance Measurement [Advanced Feature]

Tissue resistance is mathematically described as the real part of the tissue impedance and tissue reactance is defined as the imaginary part of the tissue impedance. To determine these parameters,…

TMS transcranial magnetic stimulation [Advanced Feature]

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a noninvasive method of studying brain functions and interconnections—it causes hyperpolarization or depolarization of neurons in specific or general parts of the brain. For TMS…

Total Peripheral Resistance (TPR) [Advanced Feature]

BP = CO x TPR where BP = blood pressure CO = cardiac output TPR = total peripheral resistance To learn more about measuring TPR using BIOPAC, review these TPR…

Transducers and Calibration – BME [Area of Study]

The BSL System employs a wide array of transducers that transform physical measures into electrical signals. The generic input design of the MP36/35 acquisition unit allows it to interface a…