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Aca2000 340km

Manufactured by Basler
Sourced in Germany

The AcA2000-340km is a high-performance industrial camera produced by Basler. It features a 2.3 megapixel CMOS sensor and can capture images at a frame rate of up to 340 frames per second. The camera supports a variety of interface standards, including CameraLink and GigE Vision.

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High-Speed Whisker Tracking for Rodent Behavior

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A high-speed camera (Basler acA2000-340km) was placed below the running wheel; whiskers were imaged from below using a telecentric lens (Edmund Optics NT58-257) and a mirror angled at 45 degrees. Whiskers were backlit from above using high-powered diffused infrared LEDs (CMVision-IR200). High-speed videos were acquired with a framegrabber (Silicon Software) at 495fps with a 100us exposure and were synchronized with electrophysiology data via external triggers. Whisker tracking was performed offline using “Whisk”59 (link) (Janelia Farms, HHMI) which returned whisker angles and positions for every frame. Tracking data was further processed and analyzed using custom MATLAB scripts written to extract whisker contacts, set-point, amplitude, phase, and frequency. Whisker contacts were defined as the moment a whisker trace entered a user specified region of interest placed around the border of the stimulus bar. Contact accuracy was verified by watching a subset of videos from each experiment.
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Long-term Embryo Imaging in Microfluidics

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To achieve clear long-term live imaging of embryos captured in the side cavities, the microfluidic device was mounted on the motorized X-Y stage (ProScan III, Prior) of an inverted microscope (IX83, Olympus), which positioned embryos under the field of view of the microscope. A computer-controlled syringe pump was employed to regulate the flow rate at the inlet of the microfluidic device. Clear imaging was obtained through a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) camera (acA2000-340 km, Basler; 2040 × 1080 pixels) mounted on the microscope, and a host computer was responsible for running the custom-made control software for syringe pump regulation.
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Multimodal Finger Imaging Setup

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The setup was built around an area-scan CMOS camera (Basler acA2000-340 km; ROI set to 512 × 320 pixels, 200 fps) placed at 25 cm distance, imaging the index finger from the top. This camera was triggered via a microcontroller (STM32) that also controlled the timing of the applied LEDs and lasers (thereby synchronizing all system components). The laser driver was home-built using an iC-WJZ chip (iC Haus).
The camera was triggered at a framerate of 200 fps. Via time domain multiplexing, the camera framerate was equally distributed across 4 acquisition channels (each 50 fps). This enabled continuous video acquisition while multiplexing between different illumination modes and/or light source types. The following light source types were applied:

Red laser diode (Thorlabs HL6358MG—639 nm, 10 mW, Ø5.6 mm);

NIR laser diode (Thorlabs L850P010—850 nm, 10 mW, Ø5.6 mm);

Red LED (Wurth Elektronik 150141SS63140—640 nm, 196 mW);

NIR LED (Vishay TSHG6200—850 nm, 180 mW).

The camera images were stored in a desktop computer using full camera-link communication, as detailed in Figure 1.
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In Vivo Blood Flow Imaging Experiment

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We used the same experimental imaging setup as that in a previous study.30 (link) Low-coherence light with a central wavelength of 540 nm, bandwidth of 10 nm, and power of 100 mW was used to illuminate the sample. Validatory experiments were conducted using 2.5-day-old chicken embryos, which served as live biological samples. Raw blood flow images with a resolution of 256×256  pixels were captured using high-performance telecentric lenses (magnification: 1.7× , #63-232, Edmund Optics) and a high-speed complementary metal oxide semiconductor camera (acA2000-340 km, Basler, Germany). The exposure time and sampling rate of the camera were set to 100  μs and 500 fps, respectively. The camera had a pixel size of 5.5  μm×5.5  μm , and thus, the imaged area was 0.83  mm×0.83  mm . Six datasets with 1024-frame raw blood flow images were employed for the data preparation to obtain the training data. All components of the imaging setup were fixed on a vibration-isolation optical platform. During the experiments, the biological samples were handled carefully in accordance with the laboratory animal protocol approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Foshan University.
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High-Speed Whisker Tracking for Rodent Behavior

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A high-speed camera (Basler acA2000-340km) was placed below the running wheel; whiskers were imaged from below using a telecentric lens (Edmund Optics NT58-257) and a mirror angled at 45 degrees. Whiskers were backlit from above using high-powered diffused infrared LEDs (CMVision-IR200). High-speed videos were acquired with a framegrabber (Silicon Software) at 495fps with a 100us exposure and were synchronized with electrophysiology data via external triggers. Whisker tracking was performed offline using “Whisk”59 (link) (Janelia Farms, HHMI) which returned whisker angles and positions for every frame. Tracking data was further processed and analyzed using custom MATLAB scripts written to extract whisker contacts, set-point, amplitude, phase, and frequency. Whisker contacts were defined as the moment a whisker trace entered a user specified region of interest placed around the border of the stimulus bar. Contact accuracy was verified by watching a subset of videos from each experiment.
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SHEAR Optical Instrument for Tissue Imaging

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A schematic of the SHEAR optical instrument is displayed in Fig. 1(A). A laser beam (633 nm, Helium-Neon, 45 mW, JDSU) was focused at the back focal plane of the objective (10x Olympus, NA=0.25), creating a 1.6 mm diameter beam (5 mW) at the sample surface. Back-scattered time-varying speckle patterns (Fig. 1(B)) were imaged via the objective and tube lens (f=175 cm) by a CMOS camera (Basler, ACa 2000-340 km, Germany) operated at 250 frames per seconds (fps). The sample was placed on a motorized stage interfaced with a step-motor controller (ESP 301-3G, Newport Corporation, USA). Speckle frame series were acquired over a region of interest (RoI) of 500×500 μm and the sample was translated in 450 μm steps in a serpentine pattern, maintaining a 10% of overlap between acquired RoIs to scan the entire sample. For each RoI, speckle frames were acquired for 1 second at 250 fps. Brightfield images were acquired simultaneously to facilitate co-registration with histopathology. A Custom-built C++ software was used for instrument automation to synchronize the motion controller and camera trigger.
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Characterizing Colloidal Suspensions with Optical Microscopy

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Two series of images of colloidal suspensions were taken under an optical microscope (Leica DM IRB), using the variable delay scheme of Sec. 2 implemented via the single-thread version of the image acquisition software. The images are taken with a CMOS camera (Basler acA2000-340km, image format 2048 × 1088 pixels) using a 10x objective, such that one pixel corresponds to 0.55 µm in the sample. In the first series, we study a suspension of small particles (SP in the following), comprising polystyrene spheres of radius a = 105 nm (Microparticles GmbH), diluted to 2.5 × 10 -3 w/w in a 1:1 v/v mixture of H 2 O and D 2 O that matches the density of polystyrene. The second suspension (large particles, LP) contains polystyrene particles with 2a = 1.2 µm (Invitrogen Molecular Probes), suspended at a weight fraction 0.005% in the same solvent as the SP. Data for the SP have been analyzed by DDM, while the dynamics of the LP have been quantified by both DDM and particle tracking.
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