{"id":4389,"date":"2016-01-15T15:54:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T20:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2016-01-15T15:54:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T20:54:31","slug":"open-source-head-mounted-calcium-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/open-source-head-mounted-calcium-imaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Open source head-mounted calcium imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/300px-Miniscopev2.jpg\" alt=\"300px-Miniscopev2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/miniscope.org\/\">UCLA Miniscope<\/a> project is an <a href=\"https:\/\/projectreporter.nih.gov\/project_info_details.cfm?aid=9012480\">NIH BRAIN Initiative-funded<\/a> project to open source head-mounted calcium imaging devices. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/miniscope.org\/\">web site<\/a> is online now. They&#8217;ll be releasing all of the information needed for making these devices yourself, including data analysis. They&#8217;ll also be holding workshops to train users.<\/p>\n<p>These devices compare favorably to commercial options. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inscopix.com\/\">Inscopix<\/a> first brought head-mounted one-photon calcium imaging to market. <a href=\"http:\/\/doriclenses.com\/life-sciences\/280-miniaturized-fluorescence-microscopy\">Doric offers another option<\/a>. And now the UCLA Miniscope project offers an open source, modifiable, and inexpensive option for this instrumentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/miniscope.org\/\">UCLA Miniscope<\/a> project is an <a href=\"https:\/\/projectreporter.nih.gov\/project_info_details.cfm?aid=9012480\">NIH BRAIN Initiative-funded<\/a> project to open source head-mounted calcium imaging devices. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/miniscope.org\/\">web site<\/a> is online now. They&#8217;ll be releasing all of the information needed for making these devices yourself, including data analysis. They&#8217;ll also&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/open-source-head-mounted-calcium-imaging\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38,36],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-calcium-imaging","tag-microscopy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4392,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/4392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}