The final resting place for Scanbox prototypes or cards fried by my esteemed collaborator (don’t let developmental neurobiologists close to electronics.)
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Pockels cell modulation via look-up tables
The Scanbox card keeps the laser power per pixel constant across the imaging field despite variations in dwell time during the resonant scanning cycle. It also blanks the laser entirely near the edges of each line. The shape of the modulation signal is fully programmable, although each change requires a firmware update to the board. We achieve…
Read MoreScanbox prototype (circa 2013)
Having done its service with honor for more than a year we had so say our goodbyes to one of only two working models of the original Scanbox prototype. Today we transitioned the two-photon microscope to the latest version of the Scanbox card. Some students and postdocs watched with much concern as cables were being pulled apart. One…
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Download and Install
[Please note that this post is no longer valid] Instructions for downloading and installing Scanbox have now been posted here. The software requires the scanbox card — please do not download if you don’t have one. Use the comments section in this other page to post questions about software/hardware installation.
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