Rodent scope: a user-configurable digital wireless telemetry system for freely behaving animals.

This paper describes the design and implementation of a wireless neural telemetry system that enables new experimental paradigms, such as neural recordings during rodent navigation in large outdoor environments. RoSco, short for Rodent Scope, is a small lightweight user-configurable module suitable...

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Autores principales: David Ball, Russell Kliese, Francois Windels, Christopher Nolan, Peter Stratton, Pankaj Sah, Janet Wiles
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:97a33db6eaed4120ab0692f81423a3142021-11-18T08:30:28ZRodent scope: a user-configurable digital wireless telemetry system for freely behaving animals.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0089949https://doaj.org/article/97a33db6eaed4120ab0692f81423a3142014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24587144/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203This paper describes the design and implementation of a wireless neural telemetry system that enables new experimental paradigms, such as neural recordings during rodent navigation in large outdoor environments. RoSco, short for Rodent Scope, is a small lightweight user-configurable module suitable for digital wireless recording from freely behaving small animals. Due to the digital transmission technology, RoSco has advantages over most other wireless modules of noise immunity and online user-configurable settings. RoSco digitally transmits entire neural waveforms for 14 of 16 channels at 20 kHz with 8-bit encoding which are streamed to the PC as standard USB audio packets. Up to 31 RoSco wireless modules can coexist in the same environment on non-overlapping independent channels. The design has spatial diversity reception via two antennas, which makes wireless communication resilient to fading and obstacles. In comparison with most existing wireless systems, this system has online user-selectable independent gain control of each channel in 8 factors from 500 to 32,000 times, two selectable ground references from a subset of channels, selectable channel grounding to disable noisy electrodes, and selectable bandwidth suitable for action potentials (300 Hz-3 kHz) and low frequency field potentials (4 Hz-3 kHz). Indoor and outdoor recordings taken from freely behaving rodents are shown to be comparable to a commercial wired system in sorting for neural populations. The module has low input referred noise, battery life of 1.5 hours and transmission losses of 0.1% up to a range of 10 m.David BallRussell KlieseFrancois WindelsChristopher NolanPeter StrattonPankaj SahJanet WilesPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 2, p e89949 (2014)
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David Ball
Russell Kliese
Francois Windels
Christopher Nolan
Peter Stratton
Pankaj Sah
Janet Wiles
Rodent scope: a user-configurable digital wireless telemetry system for freely behaving animals.
description This paper describes the design and implementation of a wireless neural telemetry system that enables new experimental paradigms, such as neural recordings during rodent navigation in large outdoor environments. RoSco, short for Rodent Scope, is a small lightweight user-configurable module suitable for digital wireless recording from freely behaving small animals. Due to the digital transmission technology, RoSco has advantages over most other wireless modules of noise immunity and online user-configurable settings. RoSco digitally transmits entire neural waveforms for 14 of 16 channels at 20 kHz with 8-bit encoding which are streamed to the PC as standard USB audio packets. Up to 31 RoSco wireless modules can coexist in the same environment on non-overlapping independent channels. The design has spatial diversity reception via two antennas, which makes wireless communication resilient to fading and obstacles. In comparison with most existing wireless systems, this system has online user-selectable independent gain control of each channel in 8 factors from 500 to 32,000 times, two selectable ground references from a subset of channels, selectable channel grounding to disable noisy electrodes, and selectable bandwidth suitable for action potentials (300 Hz-3 kHz) and low frequency field potentials (4 Hz-3 kHz). Indoor and outdoor recordings taken from freely behaving rodents are shown to be comparable to a commercial wired system in sorting for neural populations. The module has low input referred noise, battery life of 1.5 hours and transmission losses of 0.1% up to a range of 10 m.
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author David Ball
Russell Kliese
Francois Windels
Christopher Nolan
Peter Stratton
Pankaj Sah
Janet Wiles
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Russell Kliese
Francois Windels
Christopher Nolan
Peter Stratton
Pankaj Sah
Janet Wiles
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title Rodent scope: a user-configurable digital wireless telemetry system for freely behaving animals.
title_short Rodent scope: a user-configurable digital wireless telemetry system for freely behaving animals.
title_full Rodent scope: a user-configurable digital wireless telemetry system for freely behaving animals.
title_fullStr Rodent scope: a user-configurable digital wireless telemetry system for freely behaving animals.
title_full_unstemmed Rodent scope: a user-configurable digital wireless telemetry system for freely behaving animals.
title_sort rodent scope: a user-configurable digital wireless telemetry system for freely behaving animals.
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