Example of ECGSYN output

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The files in this directory illustrate ECGSYN output obtained using its default settings. The files ecgsyn.dat and rr.dat are created by ECGSYN itself.

ecgsyn.dat is a text file, which contains three columns:

rr.dat is also a text file, containing (in one column) a series of inter-beat (RR) intervals in seconds.

The files syn.hea and syn.dat are PhysioBank (WFDB) format header and signal files created from the ECGSYN output by:

    wrsamp -F 256 -o syn -x 200 1 <ecgsyn.dat
These files can be read using any of the available WFDB applications.

The file ecgsyn.png (shown below) was created from the first 4.5 seconds of ecgsyn.dat, using plt:

     plt ecgsyn.dat 0 1 -xa 0 4.5 -t "ECGSYN output" \
       -x "Time (s)" -y "ECG Amplitude (mV)" -T lw | \
     lwcat -png >ecgsyn.png
[ECGSYN output]

Icon  Name                    Last modified      Size  Description
[PARENTDIR] Parent Directory - [   ] ecgsyn.dat 2003-12-03 00:00 1.4M ECGSYN text output [IMG] ecgsyn.png 2003-12-03 00:34 18K PNG image [   ] rr.dat 2003-12-03 00:00 832K ECGSYN text output [   ] syn.dat 2003-12-03 00:33 128K [   ] syn.hea 2003-12-03 00:33 60

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