Description of physicalunits

DESCRIPTION

 PHYSICALUNITS converts PhysDim inte PhysDimCode and vice versa
 according to Annex A of FEF Vital Signs Format [1]

   HDR = physicalunits(HDR); 
    adds HDR.PhysDim or HDR.PhysDimCode, if needed

   PhysDim = physicalunits(PhysDimCode); 
    converts Code of PhysicalUnits into descriptive physical units 

   PhysDimCode = physicalunits(PhysDim); 
    converts descriptive units into Code for physical units. 

   [..., scale] = physicalunits(...);
    scale contains the scaling factor of the decimal prefix 

 see also: SLOAD, SOPEN, doc/DecimalFactors.txt, doc/units.csv

 Reference(s):
 [1] CEN/TC251/PT40 (2001)
     File Exchange Format for Vital Signs - Annex A
 [2] The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM)
     http://aurora.regenstrief.org/UCUM/ucum.html

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physicalunits PHYSICALUNITS converts PhysDim inte PhysDimCode and vice versa

str2double % STR2DOUBLE converts strings into numeric values

fltopen FLTOPEN opens FLT file

hdr2ascii HDR2ASCII converts the header information into ASCII text.

physicalunits PHYSICALUNITS converts PhysDim inte PhysDimCode and vice versa

scpopen SCPOPEN reads and writes SCP-ECG files

sopen SOPEN opens signal files for reading and writing and returns

physicalunits

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