Here’s an update on the scope from Joshua Trachtenberg’s team. If you want one, contact them at: info.neurolabware@gmail.com
This is another moving objective microscope, like the Sutter (Denk/MOM) scope, and the Thorlabs scope. Here’s a couple…
Undocumented MATLAB has another post on improving graphics in MATLAB (previously). Waterloo is an easy-to-install package that generates nice graphics using Java. It can be used with MATLAB, R, and other software.
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One key step in analyzing data form calcium imaging experiments is segmentation (i.e., drawing regions of interest, ROIs). There have been some…
There have been wrappers for interfacing with the Kinect device before, but the latest update to MATLAB makes it native to the Image Processing Toolbox. source
Drop a Kinect in place…
Undocumented MATLAB has an in depth look at the next generation graphics handler for MATLAB which you can use today, although it’s not officially released yet. Use the command line option “-hgVersion 2” when launching…
More open source software to check out.
Two-Photon Processor and SeNeCA – A freely available software package to process…
Patrick Mineault covered this back in November in his always interesting xcorr blog.
Using some small code…
By virtue of their small eyes, mice enjoy a large depth of field. In a classic experiment (buried in the methods section) Balkema and Pinto put +6, 0, and -7 diopter lenses in front of…
Like many of you, I went to monster truck show last weekend.
The competition reminded me MATLAB’s new thing: Cody.
It’s a bunch of problems posed as MATLAB coding tasks. For example:
Find the mean of each…
In two previous posts I shared some MATLAB code to help design collection optics in 2p scopes.
Collection optics for 2p scopes, post 1
Collection optics for 2p scopes, post 2
It was just brought to my attention that I didn’t include the command locateVal in the code I posted. It’s a very…
On the topic of iOS apps, MATLAB has released v3.0 of their mobile app. The most apparent changes are UI usability improvements.
(MATLAB link, App Store link)
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On the topic of MATLAB learning materials (covered previously here and lots more MATLAB stuff here), MIT has some online courses freely available. Here’s an “aggressively gentle” intro to MATLAB, and …
ScanImage is an excellent software package for controlling 2p scopes. It’s free and open source. It’s been actively developed and released to the…
A colleague once told me: “in MATLAB, drawing a raster plot is a trivial, one line command”. True, but then you spend another 10 lines of code trying to make it not look like complete crap….
In many rigs, multiple computers are used, and they need to talk to each other. For example, one computer handles the imaging,…