Monthly Archives: April 2016

Reglo ICC serial port control via Matlab

Posted on April 15, 2016 by P.T.R. Rupprecht

For my experiments with zebrafish, I typically generate dynamic odor landscapes for the fish / fish brain explant by varying the speed of the wheels of an Ismatec peristaltic pump, thereby changing the concentration of the applied stimuli over time. Recently, I bought one of their digital … Continue reading →

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Fast z-scanning using a voice coil motor

Posted on April 6, 2016 by P.T.R. Rupprecht

We just published a paper on fast remote z-scanning using a voice coil motor. For 2P calcium imaging. It’s a nice paper with some interesting technical details. The starting point was the remote z-scanning scheme used by Botcherby et al. (2012) from … Continue reading →

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