Miniscope V4 - Complete set of components

Miniscope V4 - Complete set of components

Founding developer Daniel Aharoni

US$1,790.00

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Single Pack of 5 @US$1690/unit Pack of 10 @US$1590/unit

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Miniscope - Data Acquisition System (DAQ)US$490.00

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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 - Base Plate v2Pack of 5US$245.00

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Miniscope V4 - Base Plate v2Pack of 10US$350.00

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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.

Build Your Own Miniscope V4 System

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 'Miniscope V4 - Complete set of components' is an Assembly Kit that includes all the necessary components for those enthusiasts who wish to build a Miniscope V4 unit themselves.

LabMaker also offers a fully-assembled unit, tested, and ready to use. Click here to make your purchase.

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.

Content

1 x Fully-assembled and tested Miniscope V4 rigid-flex PCB
1 x Objective Module
1 x Emission Module
1 x Excitation Module
1 x Objective Aluminium sleeve for easy, repeated mounting (for base plate variant 2)
1 x Electrowetting Lens (EWL): Corning (Varioptics) A-25H0
2 x Edmund Optics Achromatic 3x6 mm Lens
1 x Edmund Optics Achromatic 4x10 mm Lens
1 x Edmund Optics Half-Ball 3 mm Lens
1 x Emission Filter
1 x Excitation Filter
1 x Dichroic Filter
1 x Base plate variant 2 with screw
10 x Thread-Forming Screws

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

Documentation

Miniscope

Source Code

GitHub

Forum

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