Miniscope V4

Name: Miniscope V4
Brand: Founding developer Daniel Aharoni
SKU: G240
Price: 2590.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Founding developer Daniel Aharoni

US$2,590.00

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Miniscope - Data Acquisition System (DAQ)US$490.00

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Miniscope V4 - Base Plate v2Pack of 5US$245.00

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Miniscope V4 - Base Plate v2Pack of 10US$350.00

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Miniscope V4 - Coaxial Cable AssemblyUS$195.00

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Miniscope V4 DummyPack of 3US$195.00

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Miniscope V4 - Hot Fix Flex PCBUS$29.00

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Founding developer Daniel Aharoni

With the sweeping success of the Miniscope family, Daniel Aharoni continues to develop neuro-behavioral recording techniques for freely behaving animals from his UCLA lab. The UCLA miniscope community maintains a WiKi to help disseminate this open source technology to the larger neuroscience community.

Record brain activity in moving mice

Description

The V4 is a leap forward in miniscope technology. It will serve as the platform for a new generation of miniscopes for years to come. This high-end solution will help to advance and disseminate miniature microscopy to the fast increasing open-source neuroscience community.

Significant contributors to the V4 were also the Cai and Shuman labs at Mount Sinai, and the Blair lab at UCLA. It builds on the Golshani, Silva, and Khakh UCLA labs' initiative coordinated by Daniel Aharoni of making Mark Schnitzer's pioneering invention (Nature Methods 2011) open source.

Miniscope V4 uses wide-field fluorescence imaging to record neural activity in awake, freely moving mice. The Varioptics electrowetting lens allows electronic focussing. V4 miniscopes from LABMaker come fully-assembled, tested, and ready to use.

Key Features

>1mm diameter field of view
~1mm working distance
with electronic focal adjustment of +/-200um with electrowetting lens; no more mechanical sliding in order to focus
all high resolution achromatic optics (no internal GRIN lens)
2.6 grams, 22 mm tall
absolute head orientation sensor
requires ~1/5th the excitation power of previous systems
still uses only a single coaxial cable (down to 0.3mm in diameter) for power, communication, and data.

Content

Fully-assembled and tested Miniscope V4
Lens configuration 1
Corning (Varioptics) 2.5mm clear aperture electrowetting lens
aluminium objective sleeve for easy, repeated mounting (for base plate variant 2)
2 separate base plate variant 2 with screws
300 cm coaxial cable, 1 mm diameter, Hirose U.FL connector

Fulfillment

New orders can be shipped out in 6-8 weeks from the date of ordering.

Publication

Z Dong, W Mau, Y Feng, ZT Pennington, L Chen, Y Zaki, K Rajan, T Shuman, D Aharoni, DJ Cai (2022). Minian, an open-source miniscope analysis pipeline. eLife

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Miniscope

Source Code

GitHub

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Miniscope V4

US$2,590.00