The BIK-TA BioInstrumentation Physiology Teaching Kit includes all of the necessary hardware and components, LabScribe software and expertly written courseware to teach 60 experiments and more than 175 exercises in biosensing cardiovascular, respiratory, and neuromuscular physiology. The BIK-TA kit also allows the student to signal condition, biosignals acquired from biosensors.

Software

LabScribe is a powerful recording and analysis software package developed by iWorx. LabScribe has an intuitive, user-friendly interface for setting up acquisition screens, calibrating signals and analyzing data.

iWorx API: Custom applications can be developed for iWorx Hardware using our API. Matlab and LabView can be used to record data from iWorx recorders.

Circuit Design

Students can create experiments and study design of add-on circuits using the breadboard.  Signal from any input channel of the IX-TA-220 can be routed to the stimulator and sent to the breadboard using the C-BNC-BB cable. Students have the ability to design a custom circuit to condition the signal. The conditioned signal can then be sent back to the IX-TA-220 using the C-DIN-BB cable, allowing the student to compare the raw biosignal and the conditioned signal in LabScribe.

Stimulator

The Stimulator in the IX-TA-220 can be setup to output waveforms, such as a square wave, sine wave ( upto 1kHz), pulses, steps, trains as well as custom waveforms. Create a custom waveform in Excel and paste it into the custom waveform generator, to output a custom waveform. Stimulator feedback channel allows the user to see the stimulator output.  Stimulator toolbar allows changes to the protocol during recording.

Digital i/o

8 digital inputs and 8 digital output are available.  The Digital output can be preset to output a pattern, just like the stimulator.

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Courseware

These Lab Exercises can be performed with the BIK-TA kit.  These experiments support courses in Biomedical, Bioengineering, Bioinstrumentation,  Signal Conditioning, Physiological systems, etc…

BioInstrumentation

BI-01: ECG Signal Conditioning

BI-02: EMG Signal Conditioning

BI-03: ECG Noise

BI-04: Frequency Response of Filters

BI-05: Op-Amp Circuits

BI-06: Control an Arduino Claw from EMG (Requires an A-CLAW)

Human Circulation

HC-01: Blood Pressure, Peripheral Circulation and Body Position

HC-02: Blood Pressure, Peripheral Circulation and Imposed Conditions

HC-03: Pulse Wave Velocity

HC-04: Pulse Contour Analysis

HC-05: Body Position, Exercise and Cardiac Output

Human Exercise

HE-01: Metabolism and Thermal Response to Exercise

HE-02: Recovery from Exercise

Human Heart

HH-01: Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Peripheral Circulation

HH-02: ECG and Heart Sounds with Stethoscope

HH-03: Exercise, the ECG and Peripheral Circulation

HH-04: Six Lead ECG

HH-05A: The Diving Reflex

HH-06: Heart Rate Variability

HH-07: ECG using Six Chest Leads

HH-08: Auscultation

HH-12: Pulse and Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

Human Muscle

HM-01: Grip Strength and the Electromyogram

HM-02: Electromyogram Activity in Antagonistic Muscles

HM-03: Oculomotor Muscle Activity

HM-04: Stimulus Response, Work, Summation and Tetanus in Human Muscles

HM-08: Electromyogram (EMG) Activity while Arm Wrestling

HM-09: Kinesiology and Electromyogram (EMG) Activity in Targeted Muscles

HM-10: The Electrogastrogram (EGG) and Growling Stomach

HM-12: Wii Balance Board and EMG Activity

Human Nerve

HN-01: Auditory and Visual Reflexes

HN-01A: Auditory and Visual Reflexes

HN-02B: Stretch Receptors and Reflexes with Plethysmograph

HN-03: Human Nerve Conduction Velocity

HN-06: Hoffman Reflex using the Soleus Muscle

HN-07: Median Nerve Conduction Velocity

HN-08: Human To Human Interface

HN-09: Game Show Physiology

HN-10: Play Games – Hypothesis Testing

HN-11: Visual Reflexes and Color Stimulation

HN-13: Conditioned Response to stimuli

Human PsychoPhysiology

HP-01: The Electroencephalogram (EEG)

HP-01A: The Electroencephalogram (EEG) using Button Electrodes

HP-05A: Heart Rate and Blood Pressure

HP-05C: Vigilance and Reaction Time

HP-06: Cynicism-Hostility and the Hot Reactor

HP-09: Facial Expression Electromyograms (EMG) and Emotion

HP-10: Visual Evoked Potentials (VEP)

HP-11: Multisensory Reaction Times

HP-13: The Gaze Cue Paradigm

HP-13A: The Gaze Cue Paradigm using Eye Tracker system

HP-15: Hypothesis-driven Prepulse Inhibition Lab/Research Study

HP-16: Eriksen Flanker Test

HP-17: Levels of Processing and Memory

HP-18: Posner Attention Test

HP-19: Lexical Decision Task

HP-22: How does anticipating something affect your physiology; HR, temp, RR, etc…

HP-23: Using deception and famous faces to determine witness accuracy.

HP-24: To determine whether alternative healing items really work physiologically.

HP-26: Searching for a curved letter around in a circle and any other letters they can remember.

HP-27: Uses neuro-feedback to control anxiety.

HP-28: Listening to music to psych up before a sporting event.

Tutorial

TT-01: Tutorial with ECG

TT-02: Tutorial with pulse

Citations:

Martinovic, Ivan, and Vesna Mandic. “Biomedical Signals Reconstruction Under the Compressive Sensing Approach.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00337 (2018).

 

Part Number: BIK-TA