<pre>Hello,<br>In a similar situation to last weeks postings, here is my problem.<br><br>I am using an old system with an Electrocap. Our Polhemus is broken and we are<br>running studies just using the template coordinates in an *.XYZ file. Using the
<br>template coordinates, things look decent. However, I need to reorient the nose<br>(nasion) along the -Y for it to show up the correct orientation. If I opt to make<br>the head centre Cz or any other electrode, the electrodes are outside of the head
<br>template. I have removed all non scalp electrodes. So, I am not doing this going<br>to use the centring option.<br><br>The main problem is, the display of the electrodes are still squished too far back<br>from the front. Yet, the electrodes in the occ/parietal look fine. I have removed
<br>all the hanging electrodes as well to allow the spacing better for scalp electrodes.<br> As I have no way to collect new coordinates using our broken Polhemus and I have<br>data without individual Polhemus location files for each subject, I am at a loss
<br>what to do. I have found online the Standard-10-20-Cap81.ced which has coordinates<br>for most of my electrodes, but there are 10 electrodes unique to the montage for<br>which I cannot find the coordinates, specifically: AF355, AF455, F155, F255, C155,
<br>C255, CP155, CP255, PO355 and PO455. I do not want to drop these 10 electrodes to<br>use the Standard-10-20-Cap81.ced. If I find coordinates from elsewhere, they may<br>not match be in proper relation to the other channels in this file. Does anyone
<br>have any suggestions on how to transform the electrodes in my Polhemus standard<br>file? Or does anyone have the proper coordinates for the missing 10 in relation to<br>all the other electrodes in the Standard-10-20-Cap81.ced
?<br><br>As I have the -Y towards the nasion and the electrodes are still too far back on the<br>montage display, I think I need to transform toward the -Y direction to spread them<br>out more X direction as well. Please let me know if you can help me. I will send
<br>you the montage as it is squished and my electrode file locations. I think a simple<br>transform would do it, however, I am unsure how to do this even with the GUI<br>transform, i.e., what maths to use! Please let me know if you can help me with
<br>this. I have 35 subject worth of data and we need to be able to use it!<br><br>Any help we would be greatly appreciated! I am no expert in MATLAB or Polar maths!<br><br>Alternatively, I have moved the electrodes in the X and Y directions to correspond
<br>VISUALLY with the montage I am using on the template. However, is this the correct<br>thing to do? When plotting in the 3D, the head shape is lost. Most likely, I will<br>only be plotting in 2D. So, if things appear in 2D as I want them, is this an
<br>acceptable thing to do?<br><br>Thanks again!<br></pre>Sammie<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Samantha Serban, Ph.D.<br>Postdoctoral Research Fellow/ Adjunct Professor of Electrophysiology