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AUTHOR = JED SINGER
LAST UPDATED = SEP 24, 2010
How to get data from XLTEK
Find an empty computer in the LTM room. Open up the XLTEK database. Search
for the patient's name. If you're doing this immediately after running, the data you
want will be in the currently-recording file, indicated by a squiggly line of a
different color with a spark on it. Otherwise, find the file by date/time that has the
data you want. Double-click it to open it.
This will bring you to the view/edit screen. Find the beginning of the recording
session - the behavioral file on the laptop is named for the start time and has a
modification date equal to the end time, which can guide you if you forget. You
should see a stream of constantly-spaced triggers from the trigger test, which we
don't need. Arrange things so that the vertical line on the screen is several
seconds before the next trigger, where the stuff we care about starts.
There are three buttons on the toolbar that you care about. They are the buttons
to begin marking a clip (shaped, I believe, like a vertical line with a rightward-
pointing triangle to the right), to stop marking a clip (should be disabled until you
press the clip start button, is next to it, and is an X or a square or something), and
the prune clips button (immediately to the right of those, as I recall, and... I think...
has some yellow on it? I forget, but I think there are mouseover tooltips).
With the vertical line indicating where you are placed in the proper place, hit the
start clip button. It will ask you for a name. I usually use something like "Jed
Movie 1". Then go find the end of the recording session, move the vertical line
several seconds past the final triggers, and hit the end clip button. This will make
the entire recording session yellow. Then hit the prune clips button. It will bring up
a dialog box with all the marked clips listed, yours probably at the bottom and
much bigger than all the rest. Most of them should not have checks in their
checkboxes. If any do, take note of them, because you'll want to return things to
how they were when you're done. Then, make sure all are un-checked except the
data part of your clip (the left checkbox, as I recall - for the preliminary analysis,
we don't need the video). Then hit "prune". It'll ask you for a name for the pruned
study, defaulting to the name of your clip. As long as the name identifies it as
ours, that's fine.
Some time will pass, with a progress bar to keep you company. When it's done,
hit the prune clips button again. Find your clip, select it, delete it, and return any
checkboxes you removed from any others.
Then, close the view/edit window. Make sure you hit "cancel" when it asks if you
want to save changes.
Back at the database, you should now see your pruned study. Plug in the
external hard drive to that computer, right-click on your pruned study, and choose
"export". It'll give you some options. Really the only important one is to make sure
you export it as an XLTEK file (the first choice, I believe).
Back at our lab, open up the pruned study with XLTEK. Make sure you open it as
an EEG study, it will really want to open it as a sleep study. From I believe the file
menu, you can export it as a text file. It will bring up a dialog box with a list of the
channels you want, select only the 88 data channels (1-88) plus whatever the two
channels are that carry the trigger data. Make sure that it's set to export as
microvolts, it will default to millivolts (and potentially keep going back to it as you
do other things - this should be the last thing you do). Set the start time and end
time to the start and end of the recording session. Hit export, and save the file as
something clever like movie1.txt.
That's it!
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