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PL-Winsor

If you need EEG software that fits well into your daily clinical routines, as well as provides you with advanced diagnostic capabilities, PL-Winsor is the right choice.

	Recording At the recording view, all necessary functions are visible and can be accessed by mouse. Photic stimulation programs, hyperventilation timings and markers freely can be configured. Markers can be set by keyboard, or mouse.
	Replay Replay the EEG with the same montages as used during examination, auto scroll through the record with a speed of your choice, or jump to a point of interest by clicking to the EEG scroll bar which denotes the markers set during acquisition. PL-Winsor’s bookmarks and browsing functions let you easily open further recordings and display them next to each other for direct comparison in split screen mode. The display parameters freely can be defined, i.e. you are not restricted to predefined filter sets.
	Analysis PL-Winsor calculates, for example, the Root-Mean-Square (R.M.S.) amplitude and the dominant frequency of a specified segment. When zooming inside a trace, you will not only get a bigger signal, but a signal with increased resolution – a measuring function is integrated.
	Power mapping Power mapping for freely selectable time intervals is provided in the PL-Winsor standard version. You can scroll through the EEG while the power map is recalculated.
	Database The advanced PL-Winsor database not only helps you managing patient and EEG data: Schedule examinations for any station in a network, choose the reviewer and define the channels to be recorded. Later, the examination can be started by a mouse click.
	Reporting Reports either can be written in Microsoft Word®, or within any RTF-compatible text editor. In both cases, the reports are saved in RTF format to ensure long-term data compatibility. When working with MS Word, the patient and EEG data are automatically inserted into the report.

Suitable for routine EEG, PSG/sleep studies, longterm EEG, ambulatory EEG and videometry
Selectable recording formats: EDF, WG and WG+ (16 bit)
Reliable recordings also in unreliable networks
Local recordings with automatic data transfer after reconnecting to network
Online review of running recordings at networked stations
Professional, reliable databases (up to ten)
HL7 interface to clinic IT systems, and GDT interface
Superior signal resolution
Exact screen scaling (3 cm in the EEG actually are 3 cm on the monitor)
Flexible configuration of filter values, montages, photic stimulation programs, marker texts, and more
Edit your findings with Microsoft® Word at your office or wherever you want
Inexpensive archiving on network shares, MagnetoOpticals, optical media
Support in all questions of usage and continued software updates on the basis of an optional software service contract

PL-Winsor is the successor of the DOS PL-EEG software which has been developed in 1989, which set new trends in the field of digital EEG diagnostics – and is still in use at large hospitals. Since more than 13 years, Walter Graphtek ensures a smooth transition to newer operating systems and technologies to facilitate the transfer of existing patient and EEG data into newer systems without any data losses.

System requirements

Windows XP Professional or Windows Vista recommended
(Windows NT 4.0 SP6, Windows 2000 Professional also supported)
Pentium IV or higher with 1.6 GHz minimum
RAM 512 MB minimum
SCSI hard disk on file server recommended
Free disk space: 4 GB on file server, 2 GB others
Archiving on network shares recommended. Alternatively, CD writers with Packet Writer Software can be used (DVD writer possible, but not recommended). When archiving on CD/DVD media, no data safety can be guaranteed.
Printers with 8 MB RAM minimum recommended
AGP graphics card supporting "zero time frame copy", 64 MB memory minimum 9
Screen resolution 1024 x 768 pixels minimum, 1152 x 864 pixels at recording stations
Network: 100 Mbit/s transfer rate recommended
3COM network card for headboxes

Display and review

Sensitivity per channel and global selection 1 – 1000 µV, time constants per channel and global selection 0.03 – 1 s (optional 3 s), low-pass filter per channel and global selection 15 – 100 Hz
Software deblock function
Numeric and graphic display of polygraphic data
More than 100 montages, freely programmable
Notch filter 50 Hz or 60 Hz per channel and global selection
Display of time, filters, montages, sensitivity and events on printouts and on the screen
Integrated measurement of amplitudes, slope, frequencies, RMS amplitudes and power spectra
Printout on Windows-compatible laser and InkJet printers
Reports using Microsoft® Word 2000/2002/XP/2003 (with user-definable templates) or using any RTF compatible text editor

Data management

Patient and EEG database with archive management for MO or CD (DVD media not recommended)
EEG import and export (PL format, EDF)
Patient data export (Excel, XML)
Patient data import (XML, optional GDT)

Further features

Photic stimulation programs software programmable
Assignment of reviewers to recordings in the database
Replay as recorded
Split screen to display different EEG recordings, montages or EEG segments side by side
Zoom tool displaying the signal with increased resolution and integrated measuring function
Integrated amplitude and frequency mapping
Replay of recorded data during recording
Marker positioning by access keys and quick setting of free text markers during recording – free marker editing later
Bookmarks and browsing functions to easily find and display recordings and relevant segments
Signal images can be pasted into reports
Extended configuration options, e.g. of default signal parameters, hyperventilation timing, grid, print options, and automatic patient and EEG number schemes
Automatic headbox detection to fit software options to the attached headbox type
User accounts with different user rights
Optional analysis modules (sleep staging, online spike detection, brain mapping, FFT)
Ambulatory recordings can be integrated into the database

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PL-Winsor

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