Software Tool for Recording and Analysis of the Brain Intrinsic Optical Signals

Recording and analysis of intrinsic optical signals of the nervous tissue is associated with synchronous recording and analysis of connected action potentials. However, there are no acquisition systems enabling those measurements using one environment. Therefore we developed software tool for recording and analysis of video data, which is part of software providing unified user interface for synchronous electrophysiological and video acquisition and analysis. The video acquisition component, together with other parts of presented software, was programmed using Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 library and C# programming language. The component enables to record from several types of camera; standard web and DV cameras and selected high resolution cameras for microscopy use. Captured data can be saved in two types of file, widely used video file format AVI and BVG file format designed for storage of uncompressed high resolution images.