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The goal of this Wiki, and the Miniscope project in general, is to help advance and disseminate miniature microscopy technology to the neuroscience community. While the Miniscope platform described here is not an off-the-shelf commercial solution, we have focused on making it as easy as possible for any neuroscience lab to build, use, and modify, requiring no soldering and only simple hands-on assembly. The Miniscope project, Miniscope repositories, and Miniscope.org are on going projects and will be routinely updated over the coming months and years.
The V4 Miniscope is a significant advancement over our previously released systems and will serve as the base Miniscope platform for years to come. Our Features page outlines in details some of the unique capabilities of this system and we have also outlined some of them below:
- 1mm diameter field of view or greater
- ~1mm working distance
- +/-200um electronic focal adjustment
- All achromatic optics
- 2.6 grams
- 22mm tall
- Absolute head orientation sensor
- Requires ~1/5th the excitation power of previous systems
- No more soldering!
- Still uses only a single coaxial cable (down to 0.3mm in diameter) for power, communication, and data.
- New DAQ software
