HelioScan: A software framework for controlling in vivo microscopy setups with high hardware flexibility, functional diversity and extendibility

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 38-52

  Langer, Dominik ^a   van 't Hoff, Marcel ^a   Keller, Andreas J ^a   Nagaraja, Chetan ^b   Pfäffli, Oliver A ^a   Göldi, Maurice ^a   Kasper, Hansjörg ^a   Helmchen, Fritjof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Control software; Intrinsic optical imaging; LabVIEW; Two photon laser scanning microscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; LASER MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NEUROIMAGING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84874779451     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2013.02.006     Document Type: Article

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