Behavioral Camera with Infrared Illumination

Description

Unlock the full potential of your research with our behavioral monitoring camera with infrared illumination designed specifically for monitoring mice and rats behavior. Whether you’re conducting behavioral studies, neurological research, or any other scientific investigation, our behavioral monitoring camera with infrared illumination provides the reliability and performance you need to achieve your research goals.

Key Features

• High-Speed Recording: Capture rapid movements and subtle behaviors at up to 900 fps (256 x 128).
• Infrared Illumination: Monitor your subjects in dark conditions without disturbing their natural behavior and the imaging system.
• Adjustable Zoom: Focus on specific areas or behaviors with ease, such as the pupil, whiskers or paws, thanks to the adjustable zoom feature.
• Flexibility: Equipped with articulated positionning arms to placethe camera and illumination anywhere. The arm can be fixed with an M6 screw to your setup or mounted to a metal table using our magnetical stand.

Specifications

• FLIR Blackfly S USB3 camera.
• Adjustable binning, region of interest, exposure time and frame rate with SpinView software.
• 1440 x 1080 at 226 fps, 256 x 128 at 900 fps.
• Adjustable 850 nm infrared illumination with 12V power supply (included).

Other Offers

Combine our Behavioral Camera with our Mouse Head Fixation System or Treadmill to monitor your animal while it is head-fixed.

This product is also available as an add-on to our OiS200 Imaging System. Contact us if you require this option.

Video Tracking

We provide video tracking analysis tailored to your specific research objectives, helping you save time on image processing. While tracking algorithms like DeepLabCut are popular in the scientific community, they can be overwhelming for non-programmers. Often, simpler tracking solutions meet researchers’ needs and deliver reliable results with fewer computational resources and easier setup.

Below is an example of a 900 Hz video acquisition using the optogenetic and behavioral add-ons on our OiS200 Imaging System. The brain was stimulated in different regions using a 450 nm laser. Paw movement was acquired and processed using a custom algorithm. A map was made using the movement amplitude at a fixed laser power. In this example, the hardware, acquisition software, and post-processing algorithm were provided by Labeo Technologies.

Another example of video tracking algorithm for eye-tracking. It can  precisely measure the position, size and direction of the eye. These measurements were crucial to our customer in order to measure opto-cinetic reflex.