The movement of the microscope is achieved by four motors that control the position of the objective. The motors can be independent or coupled, depending on the operating mode selected in the Position panel in the Scanbox GUI. There are three positioning modes: normal, rotated and pivot. To explain how these work, we need to define the coordinate system used…
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Online trial averaging
It is often the case that you may want to do some quick on-line analyses on our data during the execution of an experiment. Scanbox provides a quick way to save, at the end of each experiment, the mean image during each trial. To use this feature do the following: Select “Accumulate” in the Image…
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[Updated Dec 2015] Integrating a Scanbox-controlled microscope with your system rather pretty straightforward after you understand how the system samples external events and how it can be controlled over the network. Monitoring external TTL events When Scanbox runs it monitors external events on its TTL inputs. Two TTL inputs, labeled TTL0 and TTL1, are readily available as SMA…
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