<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Julian,<div><br></div><div>Maybe a stupid answer and probably you have taken care of this already, but does the chair have any metal? We use an IKEA wooden garden chair.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Stephan</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>El 03/06/2013, a las 17:14, Julian Keil escribió:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear FieldTrip-Users,<div><br></div><div>I have a not really FieldTrip-related question, but maybe one of you can help me anyways.</div><div>In our lab, we have a Polhemus Patriot 3D tracking system to acquire electrode positions.</div><div>Unfortunately, the recordings are severely distorted in the Z-axis (up-down).</div><div>After contacting the Polhemus Support, I got the information, that this is due to metal in the surroundings of the source which distorts the magnetic field.</div><div>I tried to get as far away from any metal as possible in our lab (~1.5 m to the walls and floor) but to no avail.</div><div><br></div><div>Now to my question: Has anyone any experience dealing with this? I'm quite puzzled by this as I know plenty of labs use Polhemus trackers, and I'm not sure if our lab is especially metal prone or if I'm missing something.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for any help.</div><div><br></div><div>Julian</div><div><br></div><div>
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