Why use Bio Bench if you have LabVIEW?????

[Himanshu]

I want to acquire and analyze physiological data using LabVIEW 6i and PCI 6024E card.I think that it is possible to do it. I would like to know from you people out there if ECG, EEG, Blood Pressure signal can be sucessfully acquired and displayed using LabVIEW 6i. What are the additional features of BioBench, which give it an edge on labVIEW. Why cant labVIEW be used instead of Bio bench.Please give me some good reasons.

[Kamran S.]

I can't think of any reason for you not to be able to do so with LabVIEW. You're acquring signals, processing them and displaying them ... which is what LabVIEW enables you to do.

You can download an evaluation version of Biobench on the ni web-site:
http://digital.ni.com/demo.nsf/websearch/166F77DB86C8D2C086256BA4007F1DB2?OpenDocument&node=10435_US

Why not try it out and see if it provides anything useful to you?

Also, there's a bio-medical monitor start-up toolkit for LabVIEW you can download as well:
http://amp.ni.com/niwc/biobench/bio2.jsp?node=10435

Best of luck,
Kamran

[Scott Seidman]

hhjjj wrote in news:5065000000080000001B620000-1031838699000
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> I want to acquire and analyze physiological data using LabVIEW 6i and
> PCI 6024E card.I think that it is possible to do it. I would like to
> know from you people out there if ECG, EEG, Blood Pressure signal can
> be sucessfully acquired and displayed using LabVIEW 6i. What are the
> additional features of BioBench, which give it an edge on labVIEW. Why
> cant labVIEW be used instead of Bio bench.Please give me some good
> reasons.
>

Of course Labview can be used instead of Biobench. My understanding is
that Biobench is simpler to use than Labview, i.e., shortened design time,
but your flexibility is substantially reduced. Note that this summarized
by observat
ions of a colleague using Biobench, not my own experience with
Biobench.

Since Labview is a full programming language, there are no real additional
capabilities in Biobench. Labview can do absolutely everythink Biobench
does, so long as you are willing to program it.

My advice is, if you have Labview, and know Labview, just use labview. If
there are people who don't know Labview who will be expected to program,
you might reconsider Biobench.

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Scott
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[Greg_McKaskle2]

> I want to acquire and analyze physiological data using LabVIEW 6i and
> PCI 6024E card.I think that it is possible to do it. I would like to
> know from you people out there if ECG, EEG, Blood Pressure signal can
> be sucessfully acquired and displayed using LabVIEW 6i. What are the
> additional features of BioBench, which give it an edge on labVIEW. Why
> cant labVIEW be used instead of Bio bench.Please give me some good
> reasons.

Just to add what the other posts have already said, BioBench was written
using LV, so of LV is capable of everything BioBench can do as long as
you are comfortable writing the algorithm or interface VIs to interact
with the data.

Greg McKaskle

[JRA]

I am not very familiar with BioBench, but I do know that you can do everything you want to with LabVIEW 6i. Plus, if you upgrade to 6.1, you can run all your applications from over the web with remote panels. This is definitely a step up on BioBench.

[Enrique]

The difference is that with LabVIEW you must create the application yourself while BioBench is already made and ready to use.

My understanding is that BioBench is a software package designed to perform its specific function. It is not a scaled-down LabVIEW development software where you must create your own application.

It was made with LabVIEW, like any other application you had developed with LabVIEW. If you have LabVIEW, of course you can build it.

There are customers outhere that prefer to have a plug-n-play solution so they can dive into their experiments without going through developing the tools first. With LabVIEW, you have to develop the tools yourself.

BioBench is not for software developers. (Am I right? I hope I didn't miss something...)


Sometime we are so use to the idea of creating our own tools and solutions that we forget that somebody may already built it... 😉

Enrique