Data
Acquisition and analysis for the life sciences has improved immensely from the
days of chart recorders and oscilloscopes. Remember when data had to be scored
by hand, and marked and measured with a ruler? The old technology of the past
has given way to sophisticated
data acquisition hardware and data
acquisition software platforms of the present day that allow researchers to
record, display, and analyze data intuitively with easy-to-use hardware and
simple pull-down software menus.
Data
Acquisition hardware is no longer complicated equipment, full of knobs, dials
and switches — rather it is easy to use, flexible and available for a wide
range of application areas. Wireless
data acquisition hardware allows of recording of mobile or ambulatory
subjects in real world environments or virtual reality paradigms. Data can be
streamed live or logged to an internal storage for later upload. Data
acquisition hardware is also available for specialty applications like fMRI,
now researchers can record
physiology in the MRI to examine subject responses during functional
magnetic resonance imaging tests.
After
acquiring physiological data, researchers can use data acquisition software
with automated analysis
routines to mark, score, and output results from the data. Data acquisition
software is intuitive and feature rich, with real-time display options,
real-time calculation channels, and post acquisition analysis tools including
cycle detectors, rate calculators, frequency and power analysis and specific
automated analysis routines for signals such as ECG, EMG, EEG, Blood Pressure,
ICG, EDA, and more!
