Miniscope V4

Founding developer Daniel Aharoni

$1,850.00 USD $2,250.00 USD

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Add-ons for Miniscope V4

Miniscope V4 - Base Plate v2 (Pack of 10) - $890.00 USD (details)
Miniscope V4 - Base Plate v2 (Pack of 5) - $495.00 USD (details)

Founding developer Daniel Aharoni

After the sweeping success of the V3.2 Miniscope Daniel Aharoni continues to raise miniscope technology to new levels from his UCLA lab focussed on developing neuro-behavioral recording techniques for freely behaving animals. 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.

The UCLA miniscope community maintains a WiKi to help disseminate this open source technology to the larger neuroscience community.

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.

Miniscope V4 uses wide-field fluorescence imaging to record neural activity in awake, freely moving mice. V4 miniscopes from LabMaker come fully-assembled, tested, and ready to use. It is compatible with the Data Acquisition System (DAQ) with V4 firmware.

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.

Fully-assembled and tested Miniscope V4
Lens configuration 1
aluminium objective sleeve for easy, repeated mounting (for base plate variant 2)
one separate base plate variant 2 with screw and screwdriver
300 cm coaxial cable, 1 mm diameter, Hirose U.FL connector
150 cm coaxial cable, 0.3 mm diameter, Hirose U.FL connector