It is a version of Mark Schnitzer's design for a head-mounted microscope to monitor fluorescent calcium signals in freely behaving rodents, published in Nature Methods in 2011.
http://miniscope.org/
I am looking for general feedback on putting it together and using it as well as comparisons between Miniscope and Doric Lenses or Inscopix's much more expensive systems.
We recently demoed the Doric Lenses system in the lab at UBC.
The doric personnel were very helpful in getting the system set up and the hardware is well built.
It was a bit tricky to attach the scope to the cannula, but this would get easier with practice. It also lacks a way to adjust the focus while imaging which I believe the miniscope has.
In the end we did not get the results we were looking for with the system, so we decided not to follow through and buy it.
I would like to try the miniscope build next. I saw it at SfN in Chicago and I really liked that they had reduced the cabling to one connection between scope and electronics.
I just went to a talk on miniscopes. Where can we purchase one from?
Hi Amanda,
The miniscope project is an open design and meant to be built by each lab. The website I linked in my original post contains all the information you could need.
Alternatively, Doric Lenses and Inscopix offer (much, much more expensive) ready to use versions
This thread is already 3 years, I wonder if there is any new developments in this technique. Perhaps new models in the market. Does anybody knows anything?
Here is the link for new miniscope version: https://open-ephys.org/miniscope-v4/miniscope-v4
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