Trackit Mk3 User Manual
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1 I nsert the flash card into the Trackit Mk3 and connect t o t he host com puter. See St ep 6 Connect
Trackit for Setup.
2 Open t he Get Card I nfo dialog box.
3 Choose Form at Disk from the Disk Utilit ies Menu.
4 Click on the Form at but t on.
5 Wait for the form at com plete m essage to appear. A 1GB card will take around 5 seconds t o for-
m at , larger cards will take longer to form at .
Ca ut ion: in nor m a l ope r a t ion, fla sh car ds ra re ly r e quire for m a t t in g. I f for m a t t ing is done
on the PC it is easy to ina dver t e nt ly cre a t e t h e w rong ca r d f orm a t .
Ea r lier Tr a ck it s w ith V4 .1 9 f irm w a r e a n d earlier use FAT1 6 ca r ds only ( re fe rre d to in
W indow s as ‘FAT’) . I f for a ny re a son you w ish t o form a t a f la sh ca r d, m a k e absolu t e ly
cert a in you k n ow w ha t you ar e doing! I t is ea sy t o convert fr om FAT1 6 to FAT3 2 , but
ve r y difficult to conve rt t he othe r w a y ( t he ca r d ha s t o be m a n ua lly r e - pa r t ione d an d re-
form a t t e d) . I n t he rare circum st a n ce s tha t it is necessary t o form a t a flash ca r d, use t he
inbuilt Tr ackit form a t ut ilit y.
La t er Tra ck it s fitt e d w it h firm w a re V4 .2 1 and la t er u se FAT1 6 or FAT3 2 ca r ds a nd the r e
are form at fa cilit ie s in the Tr a ck it to su pport bot h t ype s.
Factory Settings
[ > Advanced Operations > Set t ings > Fact ory Sett ings]
Factory set tings are prot ect ed by a password (via Ot her Opt ions in t he View Menu). Only trained
support st aff should have access t o fact or y sett ings.
Factory set tings also allow you to com pensate for any DC offset s t hat m ay be present on any of the
recording input s and save t he values in t he Trackit’s non- volat ile m em ory.
Configuration
[ > Advanced Operat ions > Set t ings > Configuration]
Configurat ion gives access t o t he optional pulse Oxim et er and t he independent sam ple rate and
headbox m ode features. The code displayed can be copied and em ailed to Lifelines for an act ivat ion
code to be sent back.
5. 7 Reading an ambulatory recording
Click the ‘Open all playback files’ button on t he left hand side of the Trackit soft ware toolbar (refer
to Figure 14 on page 25) t o playback a recording.
I t is possible to launch a second inst ance of the Trackit soft ware and view an on- going ‘Record to
PC’ file. I f the on-going file is locat ed in a shared folder it is possible to view t he file across a local
net wor k.
As an alt er nat ive t o t he Trackit software which offers basic playback feat ures, any EDF- com patible
viewer can be used t o read t he standard EDF files recorded by t he Tr ackit Mk3.
All Trackit recordings have a user- definable 8- character file nam e. They are stored in EDF form at ,
readable in all EDF-com pat ible EEG browsers. I n an EDF- com patible browser, the pat ient ’s nam e
and recording I D are displayed in t he test properties.
Lifelines currently recom m ends:
Nihon Kohden 1100 and 1200 EEG
Neurot ronics Polysm it h Sleep soft ware
Nicolet One EEG
Natus Coherance EEG ( form erly Deltam ed/ I t m ed)
Persyst I nsight EEG
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