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Axona's core product is its multichannel data acquisition system, designed for recording single neurons from multiple indwelling electrodes, from awake behaving animals. It has an inbuilt digital oscilloscope which reduces the size and cost of the system.
The system was developed in collaboration with hippocampal electrophysiologists, and is normally tetrode-based, though it can be configured for stereotrodes or single wires.
The original Dacq for DOS system was large, and - although very user-friendly - required an industrial PC to run the software. After two years of intensive R&D, we miniaturised the system and made it USB-based, so that it can run on any PC having USB 2.0. The system has proven very popular due to its portability and low cost.
Dacq systems interface with a number of behavioural data collection systems. An inbuilt position tracker allows tracking of LEDs on the animals, in two or three dimensions. A digital I/O system allows event-logging and apparatus control, for example in food pellet delivery, or monitoring of lever presses. An inbuilt stimulator allows control of a stimulus isolator, for LTP- or similar kinds of experiment.
Our data acquisition systems come complete with a versatile control program which combines features for pre-recording screening of brain signals (including a ten-channel digital oscilloscope display). This role of this software is primarily to configure the recording and apparatus control systems, collect electrophysiological and/or behavioural data and store it on disk for off-line analysis.
For a complete list of features, please refer to the product brochure.
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