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This wiki is designed to help users with typical questions around using BESA to achieve their goals.

Topics are available for the following categories:

Manual

BESA Research Manual

Videos

Video tutorials

FAQ

Licensing

Licensing

License session not freed (BESA MRI 64 bit version)

File Formats

ASCII File Format

Channel Definition File Formats

Event File Format

MEG Sensor Coordinate Files

Supported Data Formats

Paradigm File Format in BESA

Importing Electrode Locations in Combined EEG/MEG Measurements with the Neuromag System

BESA files extensions

Talairach Transformation File

Reading BioSemi data with BESA

Using Net Station Data with BESA

Data Review and Analysis

Importing Digitized Coordinates

Verify Electrode Coordinates

Export Single Trial Data

How to Average EEG channels

Averaging Across EEG Datasets from Different Recording Systems

Time Frequency Resolution In BESA

Change Waveform Colours

Best Strategy to Define a Multiple Source Model

Export Dipole Moments of Fitted Sources

Recommended Electrode Configurations

Exporting Artifact-Corrected Data

Create Triggers for Artifact-Rejected Epochs

Inserting Triggers Relative to Existing Events

Change or Exclude Erroneous Head Surface Point Locations

Exporting Top Viewer Waveforms into other Graphics Software for Further Processing

Seed dipole solutions from cortical images

Pipeline for simultaneous EEG-fMRI recording

The source space in individual FEM head models

Export each gradiometer and magnetometer data separately

Peak Finder explained

Using BESA to correct blink and EKG artifacts in MEG data

Filtering scope

Enabling auto orientation for 3D topographic maps

MATLAB interface

How Do I Configure the Matlab Interface?

Updating the Matlab Interface after Matlab Upgrade

Exporting Data from Matlab to BESA Statistics

Visualization with BESA Plot in FieldTrip

BESA MRI

Marking AC-PC Points in BESA MRI

BESA Statistics

Cluster Alpha vs. Neighbor Distance

How to Prepare Data for BESA Statistics

Importing BESA Statistics Results into Excel

Exporting Data from Matlab to BESA Statistics

BESA Connectivity

How to Prepare Data for BESA Connectivity

Export Connectivity Results

How to Convert BESA Connectivity results for BESA Statistics

Operating systems

Running BESA Research on the Mac

Troubleshooting

The internal error MF_211 (BESA MRI, BESA Statistics and BESA Connectivity)

3D Graphics Display Issue Handling

Batch Error Handling

Error message: Failed to load library during software installation

License session not freed in BESA MRI 64 bit version

Install And Update File Format Readers

Wrong characters in BESA software

Blank white screen when capturing the 3D window of the source analysis window

Error opening program or opening the file dialog box

BESA Recipes

• Control of BESA Research by external programs
• Correcting Volume Conductor Segmentations
• Exporting Data from Matlab to BESA Statistics
• Integration of Custom Template Head-Models
• Random Averaging
• Statistical Analysis for More than Two Levels
• Visualization with BESA Plot in FieldTrip
• Pipeline for simultaneous EEG-fMRI recording
• How to deal with TMS artifact in BESA Research
• Artifact correction with intracranial channels

Did you know...?

• Moving Dipole Fit
• BESA Anonymizer
• Batch Processing
• Analyzing Electrocorticography Data
• Advanced Top Viewer Features
• Different beamformer types in the source analysis module

Coming soon

• a collection of useful batches
• and further content we will be publishing on this wiki

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