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The g.tec Newsletter September 2004 Volume 8
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The g.tec-GUGER TECHNOLOGIES OEG electronic news bulletin. Articles provide tips and shortcuts for using g.tec’s product family, as well as other technical, product, service, and event information.

Products
(3) New enhanced g.ECGtoolbox for g.BSanalyze will be soon released
The g.ECGtoolbox comprises new outstanding facilities to investigate also beat-to-beat signal changes in ECG. A versatile beat editor allows extracting characteristic points in the ECG and measuring e.g. QT interval changes or P, T or R - wave amplitude changes.

Promotion
(4) Discount for g.BSanalyze - the offline biosignal data processing toolbox - is now available for universities and colleges

(5) Basic Biosignal Research Package - acquire and process EEG/ECG/EMG/EOG signals
The basic biosignal research package is an all in-one system used to acquire and process multi-modal biosignals such as EEG, ECG, EMG, EOG or also physical signals.

Training, Events, Jobs
(6) Short Report: Training seminar on biosignal processing in Singapore, Raffles Center, Singapore, June/July 2004
(7) Update 2nd Brain-Computer-Interface Workshop and Training Course, September 17th - 18th 2004, at the Institute for Human Computer Interfaces, Graz, Austria
(8) 7th Annual International Workshop on Presence, PRESENCE 2004, October 13th-15th 2004, Valencia, Spain
(9) OEGBMT Symposium 2004 on Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology Graz, November 12-13, 2004. Graz, Austria
(10) European Union IST conference, "Netherlands Congress Centre", November 15-17 2004, The Hague, The Netherlands
(11) AG-ERA (Evoked Response Audiometry) Meeting Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, November 26-27, 2004 Magdeburg, Germany

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(1) g.UBSamp - high end 24 bit biosignal amplifier available
g.USBamp - g.tec's latest 24 bit biosignal acquisition device - is the perfect tool for recording multimodal biosignal data with highest quality. This allows to investigate brain-, heart-, muscle-activity, eye movement, respiration, galvanic skin response and other body signals. g.USBamp is USB 2.0 enabled and comes with 16 simultaneous sampled biosignal channels and 2 analog output channels. A total of 4 independent grounds guarantee no interference between the recorded signals. The amplifier can simply be connected to the USB socket on your PC/Notebook and can immediately be used for data recording. Record up to 256 channels using multiple g.USBamp devices.
See: http://www.gtec.at/products/g.USBamp/gUSBamp.htm

(2) Pocket BCI - The Brain-Computer Interface on a Pocket PC
Based on the mobile data acquisition system g.MOBIlab the brain-computer interface is now available on a standard Pocket PC. The Pocket Brain-Computer Interface is trained to the subjects brain waves and converts brain signals into control signals. The mobile device can be easily installed at subjects homes for BCI training or used for experiments in field researchs.
See: http://www.gtec.at/products/g.MOBIlab/gMOBIlab_PocketBCI.htm

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(3) New enhanced g.ECGtoolbox for g.BSanalyze will be soon available
The g.ECGtoolbox comprises new oustanding facilities to investigate beat-to-beat signal changes in ECG. Non-normal ECG beats are automatically detected and classified. An intelligent beat editor displays the single heart beats, allows extracting characteristic points in the ECG signal and measuring e.g. QT interval changes or P, T and R - wave amplitude changes.
See: http://www.gtec.at/products/g.BSanalyse/gECGtoolbox/gECGtoolbox.htm

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(4) Discount for g.BSanalyze - the offline biosignal data processing toolbox - is now available for universities and colleges
In order to better support the scientific community in biosignal data processing g.BSanalyze prices for universities and colleges have been reduced by 30%.
See: http://www.gtec.at/service/about_prices.htm

(5) Basic Biosignal Research Package - acquire and process EEG/ECG/EMG/EOG
The basic biosignal research package is a complete system used to acquire and process multi-modal biosignals such as EEG, ECG, EMG, EOG and also physical signals. The system includes a CE-certified analog biosignal amplifier with 10 channels (g.BSamp), a coupling box for full access to analog and digital signals, a 16 channel 16-bit DAQ card with cable, recording software (g.DAQsys) and advanced biosignal analysis software (g.BSanalyze) with EEG- and ECG-toolbox.

Auditory stimuli are presented to the subject via the computer's soundcard by headphones. Visual stimuli are generated via a flashing lamp. Timing information of auditory and visual stimuli are stored in synchrony with the biosignals. Subject's reactions via button press are also stored with the biosignals.
See: http://www.gtec.at/products/basicresearch/gBASICresearch.htm

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(6) Short Report: Training seminar on biosignal processing in Singapore, Raffles Center, June/July 2004
Research in life sciences is highly interdisciplinary: Medical doctors, biomedical engineers, physicists, psychologists, IT-specialists and specialists in digital signal processing (software and hardware) are working together. The g.tec seminar yielded insights into different aspects, applications and g.tec solutions in the fields of real-time, on-line and off-line biosignal data processing. Applications of g.tec solutions in research areas of brain-computer-interface, monitoring and outcome prognosis of preterm infants as well as applications in field research using mobile data acquisition devices were covered.
See: http://www.gtec.at/news/newsletter_04_vol8/seminar_imath_I_II.pdf (4.8 MB)

Meet us at:
(7) Update 2nd Brain-Computer-Interface Workshop and Training Course, September 17th - 18th 2004, at the Institute for Human Computer Interfaces, Graz, Austria
See: http://www.dpmi.tugraz.at

(8) 7th Annual International Workshop on Presence, PRESENCE 2004, October 13th-15th 2004, Valencia, Spain
The goal of the PRESENCE 2004 conference is to bring together academic researchers in the area of media and presence, content and technology developers, and interested commercial parties in ordert to exchange information, share experiences, present research, and discuss ideas.

(9) OEGBMT Symposium 2004 on Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology Graz, November 12-13, 2004. Graz, Austria
Among the main themses are: computer models and simulation of physiological and biological systems, rehabilitation techniques, innovative techniques for disabled and Bioinformatics
See: http://www.oegbmt.at

(10) European Union IST conference, "Netherlands Congress Centre", November 15-17 2004, The Hague, The Netherlands
IST 2004 will address European policies, strategies and research activities in all areas of the Information Society. g.tec will present its work within the EC-project PRESENCIA about the Brain Computer Interface
See: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2004/cf/viewexhibdetail.cfm?exhib_id=400

(11) AG-ERA (Evoked Response Audiometry) Meeting Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, November 26-27, 2004 Magdeburg, Germany
Among other themes are: ERA and OAE, ASSR in clinical theatre and frequency specific objective audiometry

Best regards from Austria
Guenter Edlinger and Christoph Guger