BESA files extensions - Revision history

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Jaehyun: /* Besa Research file extensions */

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‎Besa Research file extensions

Jaehyun at 11:40, 27 August 2018

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Jaehyun: /* Besa Research file extensions */

2018-08-27T10:32:32Z

‎Besa Research file extensions

Jaehyun: /* Besa Research file extensions */

2018-04-26T15:41:58Z

‎Besa Research file extensions

Jaehyun at 14:40, 19 February 2018

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Harald: /* Besa Research file extensions */

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‎Besa Research file extensions

Jaehyun at 09:52, 7 July 2017

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Harald at 11:59, 19 May 2017

2017-05-19T11:59:03Z

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 | Main || .tal || Talairach coordinates || External file loaded to BESA. || <ul><li>[[Integration with MRI and fMRI]]</li> <li>[[Talairach Transformation File#AC-PC to Talairach|AC-PC to Talairach]]</li></ul>
 |-
 | Export || .avr || ASCII vectorized data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || [[Working_With_Additional_Files#ASCII_vectorized_format_.28.2A.avr.29 | Working With Additional Files]]

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 |title = Module information
 |module = BESA Research Basic or higher
-|version = 5.2 or higher
+|version = BESA Research 5.2 or higher
 }}
-One of the most important rules in BESA software is that the original data will never be changed during data processing (unless the user explicitly want to do it by himself). All changes (e.g. signal processing like filtering) performed in BESA are kept in PC memory and not saved in the file. That type of approach has a drawback, since all settings have to be re-generated whenever the data file is reopened. Therefore to keep all settings and be able to reload them whenever a file will be opened, BESA saves additional files beside the original one (with the same base name, but different file extensions). Note that this approach has one additional advantage: whenever the user want to start analysis from scratch he or she just needs to delete the files responsible for a particular setting (or all files to get back to the initial state). Therefore a good understanding of BESA file nomenclature may be useful for advanced BESA users.
+One of the most important rules in BESA software is that the original data will never be changed during data processing (unless the user explicitly wants to do it by himself). All changes (e.g. signal processing like filtering) performed in BESA are kept in PC memory and not saved in the file. That type of approach has a drawback since all settings have to be re-generated whenever the data file is reopened. Therefore to keep all settings and be able to reload them whenever a file will be opened, BESA saves additional files beside the original one (with the same base name, but different file extensions). Note that this approach has one additional advantage: whenever the user wants to start analysis from scratch he or she just needs to delete the files responsible for a particular setting (or all files to get back to the initial state). Therefore a good understanding of BESA file nomenclature may be useful for advanced BESA users.

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 | Main || .bad || Bad channels || Whenever electrode is marked as bad or is interpolated|| [[Review]]
 |-
-| Main || .cot || Head center coordinate || External file loaded to BESA. Information about file localization on disk is saved in .fst file|| [[Working With Additional Files]]
+| Main || .cot || Head center coordinate || External file loaded to BESA. Information about file localization on disk is saved in .fst file|| [[Working_With_Additional_Files#cot_.28Head_center.29_file | Working With Additional Files]]
 |-
 | Main || .ela, .elp, .eps || Additional electrode configuration files || When electrodes configuration was loaded (''"File &rarr; Load Channel Configuration"''). *.elp file can be manually saved in ''"File &rarr; Head Surface Points and Sensors &rarr; Save Electrode File for Current Montatage"''|| <ul><li>[[Electrodes and Surface Locations]]</li> <li>[[Channel Definition File Formats]]</li></ul>
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 | Main || .tal || Talairach coordinates || External file loaded to BESA. || <ul><li>[[Integration with MRI and fMRI]]</li> <li>[[Talairach Transformation File#AC-PC to Talairach|AC-PC to Talairach]]</li></ul>
 |-
-| Export || .avr || ASCII vectorized data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || [[Working With Additional Files]]
+| Export || .avr || ASCII vectorized data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || [[Working_With_Additional_Files#ASCII_vectorized_format_.28.2A.avr.29 | Working With Additional Files]]
 |-
 | Export || .dat || Simple binary matrix with data || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || [[Working With Additional Files]]
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 | Export || .edf || EDF+ (European Data Format) data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || [[Working With Additional Files]]
 |-
-| Export || .foc || BESA continuous native data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || [[Working With Additional Files]]
+| Export || .foc || BESA continuous native data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || [[Working_With_Additional_Files#Binary_format_.28.2A.foc.2C_.2A.fsg.29 | Working With Additional Files]]
 |-
-| Export || .fsg || BESA averaged native data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || [[Working With Additional Files]]
+| Export || .fsg || BESA averaged native data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || [[Working_With_Additional_Files#Binary_format_.28.2A.foc.2C_.2A.fsg.29 | Working With Additional Files]]
 |-
-| Export || .generic || Additional header file for binary data (.dat) || File automatically created when binary data file was exported. This file is needed to reopen .dat file || [[Working With Additional Files]]
+| Export || .generic || Additional header file for binary data (.dat) || File automatically created when binary data file was exported. This file is needed to reopen .dat file || [[Working_With_Additional_Files#Generic_File_Format | Working With Additional Files]]
 |-
-| Export || .mul || ASCII multiplexed data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || <ul><li>[[ASCII File Format]]</li> <li>[[Working With Additional Files]]</li></ul>
+| Export || .mul || ASCII multiplexed data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || <ul><li>[[ASCII File Format]]</li> <li>[[Working_With_Additional_Files#ASCII_Multiplexed_format_.28.2A.mul.29 | Working With Additional Files]]</li></ul>
 |-
 | Export || 0.001, 0.002 … || ASCII vectorized or multiplexed epochs around triggers || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' File extension indicates epoch number || <ul><li>[[ASCII File Format]]</li> <li>[[Working With Additional Files]]</li></ul>

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 ==Besa Research file extensions==
-{| class="wikitable"
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
 ! scope="col" style="width: 7%; | Application
 ! scope="col" style="width: 7%; | File extension
-! scope="col" style="width: 25%; | File function
+! scope="col" style="width: 25%; class="unsortable" | File function
-! scope="col" style="width: 40%; | When generated/changed
+! scope="col" style="width: 40%; class="unsortable" | When generated/changed
-! scope="col" style="width: 20%; | Wiki page
+! scope="col" style="width: 20%; class="unsortable" | Wiki page
 |-
 | Main || .atf || Artifact coefficients  || After setting up artifact correction (right mouse click, ''"Define artifact topography"'' menu) || [[Handling Artifacts in BESA]]
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 | Main || .cot || Head center coordinate || External file loaded to BESA. Information about file localization on disk is saved in .fst file|| [[Working With Additional Files]]
 |-
-| Main || .ela, .elp, .eps || Additional electrode configuration files || When electrodes configuration was loaded (''"File &rarr; Load Channel Configuration"''). *.elp file can be manually saved in ''"File &rarr; Head Surface Points and Sensors &rarr; Save Electrode File for Current Montatage"''|| [[Electrodes and Surface Locations]] <br> [[Channel Definition File Formats]]
+| Main || .ela, .elp, .eps || Additional electrode configuration files || When electrodes configuration was loaded (''"File &rarr; Load Channel Configuration"''). *.elp file can be manually saved in ''"File &rarr; Head Surface Points and Sensors &rarr; Save Electrode File for Current Montatage"''|| <ul><li>[[Electrodes and Surface Locations]]</li> <li>[[Channel Definition File Formats]]</li></ul>
 |-
 | Main || .evt || Events || External text file. Can be loaded by selecting ''"ERP &rarr; open event file…"'' (and saved by ''"ERP &rarr; save event file…"''). After loading information is copied to .ftg and also .fst file is updated. || [[Event File Format]]
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 | Main || .sfp || Digitized head surface points coordinates || External file loaded to BESA. Information about file localization saved in .fst file || [[Electrodes and Surface Locations]]
 |-
-| Main || .tal || Talairach coordinates || External file loaded to BESA. || [[Integration with MRI and fMRI]] <br> [[Talairach Transformation File#AC-PC to Talairach|AC-PC to Talairach]]
+| Main || .tal || Talairach coordinates || External file loaded to BESA. || <ul><li>[[Integration with MRI and fMRI]]</li> <li>[[Talairach Transformation File#AC-PC to Talairach|AC-PC to Talairach]]</li></ul>
 |-
 | Export || .avr || ASCII vectorized data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || [[Working With Additional Files]]
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 | Export || .generic || Additional header file for binary data (.dat) || File automatically created when binary data file was exported. This file is needed to reopen .dat file || [[Working With Additional Files]]
 |-
-| Export || .mul || ASCII multiplexed data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || [[ASCII File Format]] <br> [[Working With Additional Files]]
+| Export || .mul || ASCII multiplexed data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || <ul><li>[[ASCII File Format]]</li> <li>[[Working With Additional Files]]</li></ul>
 |-
-| Export || 0.001, 0.002 … || ASCII vectorized or multiplexed epochs around triggers || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' File extension indicates epoch number || [[ASCII File Format]] <br> [[Working With Additional Files]]
+| Export || 0.001, 0.002 … || ASCII vectorized or multiplexed epochs around triggers || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' File extension indicates epoch number || <ul><li>[[ASCII File Format]]</li> <li>[[Working With Additional Files]]</li></ul>
 |-
 | Export || .stddev || ASCII standard deviations of data points in .fsg files || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"''  || [[Export#Type_of_data_to_export|Type of data to export]]
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 | Source Analysis || .vts || Image ASCII voxel time series || If sources for more than one latency was computed it can be exported in 3D window of Source Analysis (''"Image &rarr; Export Image as…"'') || [[Source Analysis 3D Imaging]]
 |-
-| FFT || .faa, .fap, .far, .fai || Exported amplitude (fma), power (fmp), real (fmr) and imaginary part(fmi) of signal spectrum for average reference (Interpolated-81) montage || One of the export options in FFT window ''"File &rarr; Export FFT data menu"'' with ''"Interpolated-81"''  menu item selected (in the same menu) || [[BESA Research Spectral Analysis]]
+| FFT || .faa, .fap, .far, .fai || Exported amplitude (fma), power (fmp), real (fmr) and imaginary part (fmi) of signal spectrum for average reference (Interpolated-81) montage || One of the export options in FFT window ''"File &rarr; Export FFT data menu"'' with ''"Interpolated-81"''  menu item selected (in the same menu) || [[BESA Research Spectral Analysis]]
 |-
 | FFT || .fba || Exported Amplitude in Bands || In FFT window menu ''"File &rarr; Export Amplitude in Bands"''|| [[BESA Research Spectral Analysis]]
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 | FFT || .fft || result of FFT || In FFT window ''"File &rarr; save…"''|| [[BESA Research Spectral Analysis]]
 |-
-| FFT || .fma, .fmp, .fmr, .fmi || Exported amplitude (fma), power (fmp), real (fmr) and imaginary part(fmi) of spectrum for current montage || One of export options in FFT window ''"File &rarr; Export FFT data"'' menu with ''"Current montage"'' menu item selected (in the same menu)|| [[BESA Research Spectral Analysis]]
+| FFT || .fma, .fmp, .fmr, .fmi || Exported amplitude (fma), power (fmp), real (fmr) and imaginary part (fmi) of spectrum for current montage || One of export options in FFT window ''"File &rarr; Export FFT data"'' menu with ''"Current montage"'' menu item selected (in the same menu)|| [[BESA Research Spectral Analysis]]
 |}

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 | Main || .sfn || Labels assigned to electrode configuration .eps || External file loaded to BESA. Information about file localization saved in .fst file || [[Electrodes and Surface Locations]]
 |-
-| Main || .sfp || Digitalized head surface points coordinates || External file loaded to BESA. Information about file localization saved in .fst file || [[Electrodes and Surface Locations]]
+| Main || .sfp || Digitized head surface points coordinates || External file loaded to BESA. Information about file localization saved in .fst file || [[Electrodes and Surface Locations]]
 |-
 | Export || .avr || ASCII vectorized data file || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' || [[Working With Additional Files]]

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 |-
 | Main || .mtg || Montages || If montage was changed, just .fst file is updated. Mtg files are kept in "C:\Users\Public\Documents\BESA\Research_6_1\Montages" || [[BESA Research Montage Editor]]
 |-
 | Main || .pdg || Paradigm || After loading or creating the paradigm || [[Paradigm File Format in BESA]]

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 |-
 | Export || 0.001, 0.002 … || ASCII vectorized or multiplexed epochs around triggers || Can be generated by ''"File &rarr; Export…"'' File extension indicates epoch number ||[[ASCII File Format]] [[Working With Additional Files]]
 |-
 | Top Viewer || .bmp || bitmap file  || Save of current state of Top Viewer window (''"File &rarr; Save as Bitmap..."'')||[[Advanced Top Viewer Features]]

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 ==Besa Research file extensions==
 {| class="wikitable"
 ! Application !! File extension !! File function !! When generated/changed !! Wiki page
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 | Main || .evt || Events || External text file. Can be loaded by selecting ''"ERP &rarr; open event file…"'' (and saved by ''"ERP &rarr; save event file…"''). After loading information is copied to .ftg and also .fst file is updated. || [[Event File Format]]
 |-
-| Main || .fst || General setup file || When data file is opened for a first time, updated whenever various settings are changed (i.e. filtration parameters, surface point file localization)
+| Main || .fst || General setup file || When data file is opened for a first time, updated whenever various settings are changed (i.e. filtration parameters, surface point file localization) ||
 |-
-| Main || .ftg || Triggers || On file close
+| Main || .ftg || Triggers || On file close ||
 |-
 | Main || .ica || ICA topography || Can be saved after ICA analysis by clicking right mouse button on desired component name and selecting ''"Save Topography"''|| [[BESA Research ICA]]