Hardware - DacqUSB

Hardware

DacqUSB

Tracker

Microdrive

Headstage

Signal generator

Software

Tint

fRate

DacqWM

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 system was large, and - although very user-friendly - required an industrial PC to run the software. After two years of intensive R&D, Axona has now miniaturised the system and made it USB-based, so that it can run on any PC having USB 2.0 and a screen resolution of at least 1280x1024. The system is also much less expensive, while remaining user-friendly. The software is still being refined, but already the system is proving 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.

For a complete list of features, please refer to the product brochure.