Wireless Telemetry Starter-Pack (SPT1): The SPT1 contains everything you need to get up and running with our telemetry system. Provides telemetry reception, command transmission, and isolation from local interference.
Starter Packs
SPT1: Reception and stimulation for twenty animals in a bench-top Faraday enclosure.
SPT2: Reception, activity monitoring, and synchronous video, no Faraday enclosure.
SPT3: Reception for forty animals in an IVC rack with a canopy Faraday enclosure.
Our implantable telemetry devices allow for continuous recording of biopotentials in freely-moving, cohabiting mice and rats. Researchers across pre-clinical fields employ our system for both short-term and long-term in-vivo studies. The studies range from small-scale experiments with six animals to large-scale trials with a hundred animals. Visit our Publications and Posters page find examples of how researchers have used our telemetry system.
Epilepsy: Researchers use our transmitters to record EEG in small animals from mice pups to rats. Our event detection program allows for automatic detection of a wide variety of events in local field potential (LFP) and electroencephalograph (EEG) recordings.
Sleep: Simultaneous recording of both brain and nuchal muscles with our wireless telemetry sensors allows researchers to determine when an animal is awake or asleep, and to distinguish between REM and NREM sleep. Our sleep-scoring software is free open-source.
Optogenetics: Our Implantable Stimulator Transponder allows for wireless optical stimulation of tissue, using either a surface mounting LED for surface stimulation, or a fiber-coupled LED for deep stimulation. Our detection software provides real-time response to physiological events.
Spreading Depolarization: Our DC-coupled transmitters allow researchers to record spreading depolarization in animal models.
Stroke: Our telemetry devices provide continuous, realtime monitoring of the brain, allowing researchers to observe abnormal activity surrounding stroke, identify characteristics of ischemic events, and monitor long-term recovery from stroke.
Transmitters & Stimulators
Subcutaneous Transmitter (SCT): Telemetry devices for implantation in small animals. Many configuration options: mass 1.5 g to 14 g, low-frequency cut-off 0.0 Hz (DC) to 20 Hz, high-frequency cut-off 20 Hz to 640 Hz, input dynamic range 30 mV to 300 mV, 1 to 4 channels, lead thickness 0.5-0.7 mm, lead length 20-260 mm, depth or surface electrodes. Configuration-dependent operating life 5 to 500 days.
Head Mounting Transmitter (HMT): A biopotential sensor that mounts on the head of a small animal by means of a miniature connector, compatible with our subcutaneous transmitter (SCT) system.
Implantable Stimulator-Transponder (IST): An implantable stimulator designed for long-term experiments requiring intermittent, short-duration stimulation. Provides pulsed, variable-current electrical stimulation with a bipolar electrode, or pulsed optical stimulation with one of our implantable lamps.
Implantable Inertial Sensor (IIS): An implantable accelerometer and gyroscope for recording the dynamics of fish swimming or rodents running.
Electrodes, Leads & Accessories
Subcutaneous Depth Electrode (SDE): Accessories for our implantable sensors and stimulators, permit recording and stimulus in deeper parts of the brain.
Subcutaneous Lead (SCL): The same flexible, silicone-insulated, fatigue-resistant, corrosion-proof leads we use with our implantable telemetry sensors, but sold separately.
Electrode Interface Fixture (EIF): A connector with leads and electrodes designed to be cemented to the head of a small animal and mate with one of our HMTs.
Implantable Light-Emitting Diode (ILED): A variety of implantable lamps for use with our Implantable Stimulator-Transponders (ISTs). We have red, green, and blue Surface-Mount Light-Emitting Diodes, and green and blue Fiber-Coupled Light Emitting Diodes.
Data Acquisition System
Animal Cage Camera (ACC): A wide-angle, wide depth of field camera that provides compressed video synchronous to ±0.1 s with telemetry recordings. Provides night-day programmable, dimming and brightening white and infrared illumination.
Animal Location Tracker (ALT): A combined receiver, activity monitor, and location tracker in the form of a platform we place beneath a cage full of animals with implanted SCTs
Faraday Enclosures (FE): Faraday cages with internal absorbers designed to block and absorb 902-915 MHz microwaves so as to provide a quiet space for micropower telemetry.
