title: [Application of virtual instrumentation technique in toxicological studies].
abstract: Research investigations require frequently direct connection of measuring equipment to the computer. Virtual instrumentation technique considerably facilitates programming of sophisticated acquisition-and-analysis procedures. In standard approach these two steps are performed subsequently with separate software tools. The acquired data are transfered with export / import procedures of particular program to the another one which executes next step of analysis. The described procedure is cumbersome, time consuming and may be potential source of the errors. In 1987 National Instruments Corporation introduced LabVIEW language based on the concept of graphical programming. Contrary to conventional textual languages it allows the researcher to concentrate on the resolved problem and omit all syntactical rules. Programs developed in LabVIEW are called as virtual instruments (VI) and are portable among different computer platforms as PCs, Macintoshes, Sun SPARCstations, Concurrent PowerMAX stations, HP PA/RISK workstations. This flexibility warrants that the programs prepared for one particular platform would be also appropriate to another one. In presented paper basic principles of connection of research equipment to computer systems were described.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Zakład Informatyki i Statystyki Akademii Medycznej w Poznaniu. jmoczko@amp.edu.pl
authors.forename: Jerzy A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Moczko
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012907:Smoking; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder; D014116:Toxicology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014584:User-Computer Interface