Files And Formats Of Saved Data - Cortexa Technology DermaLab Mini Instructions For Use Manual

15 Files and Formats of Saved Data

When pressing the Save button in the measurement screens SkinLab software proposes to save
the data at the folder used last time for saving data. It also proposes a default filename with the
actual date and time (a time stamp). Pressing OK will save the data to the selected folder.
Pressing Save in any menu will save all measurement data for all kinds of measurements done.
So wait pressing Save until all measurements have been done.
All measurement data are set to 0 (zero) at startup of the SkinLab software.
When saving measurement data, SkinLab always saves up to 15 different files with the same file-
name - but using different file type extension:
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Filename.cmf: The .cmf file is the Cortex Measurement File. It is an ASCII text file with all
measurement data separated by the horizontal TAB character (ASCII value 09). The .cmf
file can be imported to Excel or other spread sheet programs or opened in any word pro-
cessing editor (e.g. Notepad, WordPad, Word, etc.). This is the file used by SkinLab when
the user presses Open to load the data in to SkinLab again.
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Filename.crd: The .crd file holds the graph of the elasticity curve, saved in readable text
as coordinates of time from the start and the elevation height.
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Filename_L.crf and filename_R.crf: These .crf files are the Cortex Raw Files and con-
tain the raw data for the left and right Ultrasound images.
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Filename_chart.tcd: These .tcd files are the TEWL Chart Data and contain the raw data
for the TEWL X chart.
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Filename_TEWL-X_data.txd: These .txd files are the TEWL X Data and contain stored
measurements for each perform TEWL measurement (1-2 pr. Second).
The .bmp file stores the ultrasound image from an ultrasound measurement. For all other
kinds of measurements an empty (=black) image is stored. The image is stored as a bit map
image of 256 x 376 pixels (512 x 376 for the Subcutaneous image). A .bmp file can be
opened by any image processing program like Paint, GIMP or inserted in Excel, Word or
Power Point files etc.
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Filename_L. bmp and filename_R. bmp: These .bmp files contain the left and right Ul-
trasound images.
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Filename.jpg. This is the image captured from the Dermascope (if any).
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Filename _TEWL-X_graph_nr.bmp is a picture of the TEWL graph. The nr used in the
file name references the nr in software (1-8)
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Filename _ela_graph.bmp is a picture of the elasticity graph.
NOTE: It is important to always keep all the files for each measurement together in the same
folder. If a measurement needs to be moved or copied to another folder all the files (filename.***)
must be moved or copied to the new folder.
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