dopOSCCI Functional Transcranial Doppler Summary Suite

We have developed a functional Transcranial Doppler summary software package based on the methods developed by
Michael Deppe (Deppe, Knecht, Henningsen, & Ringelstein, 1997; Deppe, Knecht, Lohmann, & Ringelstein, 2004a). 
‘dopOSCCI’ is an amalgamation of ‘doppler’ and 'OSCCI', the name of our research group, the Oxford Study of 
Children's Communication Impairments. The software has been developed in order to overcome some difficulties 
we had with establishing trial event markers as well as the repetitive process of single file data processing.

dopOSCCI processes multiple raw .TX and .TW files from the Multi-dop system and now supports .EXP files from 
the Doppler Box system. It searches for these within a specified folder, performs raw data processing (down-
sampling, heart rate correction, and normalisation), calculates a series of summary statistics for sets of 
epochs which are saved into a tab-delimited file (easily accessed with SPSS or Excel), and also creates a 
selectable set of figures which can also be saved for later inspection. A series of additional features also 
allows for manual epoch screening, group summaries, behavioural epoch selection (summaries by experimental 
conditions or behavioural performance), and session combination (combining independent raw Doppler files). We 
have found that dopOSCCI is a useful tool for quickly and easily exploring and summarising Doppler data.

The manual provides an overview of the graphical user interface (gui) in Matlab as well as the data summaries 
which are created.

The software was written in Matlab version 7.9.0.529 (2009b) in a Windows XP operating system. It has been 
tested in 2010 Matlab versions as well as in Windows Vista and 7. dopOSCCI is distributed under the GNU Public 
License for non-commercial use and open source development.