How do you label the different eeg channels

I have a EEG data with 16 channels currently the are named as data 1 to data 16 how do I let MatLab know that they are named C5, Fc3, C3, Cp3, C1, Fcz, Cz, Cpz, C2, Fc4, C4, Cp4, C6, EOG, NOISE, NOISE ?

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

You can create a structure array with the field names corresponding to the electrode site, or whether it is EOG, etc...

[Ken]

Is there a sample that i can follow?

Answer 2

[Star Strider]

I suggest a cell array:

ChEEG = {'C5', 'Fc3', 'C3', 'Cp3', 'C1', 'Fcz', 'Cz', 'Cpz', 'C2', 'Fc4', 'C4', 'Cp4', 'C6', 'EOG', 'NOISE', 'NOISE'};

then:

Ch5 = ChEEG(5)

produces:

Ch5 = 

      'C1'