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      <text xml:space="preserve" bytes="5348">&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 200%;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome to the BESA Wiki!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

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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|License session not freed (BESA MRI 64 bit version)]] 

=== File Formats ===

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* [[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]]
* [[Importing Digitized Points Measured by Polhemus Fastrak]]

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=== Data Review and Analysis ===

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* [[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]]

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=== MATLAB interface ===

* [[MATLAB_Interface#Configuration | How Do I Configure the Matlab Interface?]]
* [[MATLAB_Interface#Updating_the_MATLAB_Interface_after_MATLAB_Upgrade | 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 ===

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* [[MF Error 211| 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|Error message: Failed to load library during software installation]]
* [[License session not freed|License session not freed in BESA MRI 64 bit version]]
* [[Install And Update File Format Readers]]
* [[Issues related to the language setting of Windows]]
* [[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]]
* [[Problems with switching to individual head model]]
* [[Freezing issue when using the Chinese or Japanese keyboard setting]]

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== BESA Recipes ==

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* [[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]]
* [[Export Data to Brainstorm]]
* [[Export Surface Images as the GIfTI File Format using MATLAB]]

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== Did you know...? ==

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

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== All about batches ==

* [[BESA Research Batch Processing]]
* [[Useful batches]]



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