Hello,
Do you have any experience with Finapres NOVA device? I have two questions regarding this system.
1) How is it possible to open/read raw data? We have downloaded NSC and NSD files but we cannot open/read them.
2) Have you noticed problems to measure people with tiny fingers or with bigger joints on fingers? We noticed some problems with this even if we used the small cuff. Blood pressure was too small during time and the cuff signalized high pressure. Any recommendation how to solve this?
Thank you in advance!
1) It is possible to read the nsc-files. Finapres might provide you with a script to extract the time courses. Otherwise, you could program it directly. The nsc-file is nothing else than a zip (similarly to a doc-file). You can unzip it and read the data. Within the nsc there is an xml with the needed information. The raw signals are stored in binary format.
2) Unfortunately, I do not have an answer to this problem. We also have issues with extreme finger diameters. How do you know that blood pressure was low at the measuring time? Was it the brachial blood pressure? I would not assume finger and brachial blood pressure to be equal.
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