Neurolucida System Hardware

The Neurolucida system is designed to link your computer and microscope for fully interactive data analysis.

A typical Neurolucida system is composed of the following components:

Neurolucida system on an Olympus BX51Neurolucida systems can be configured
to meet your specific research needs

  • Neurolucida software
  • Digital or Video camera with frame grabber
  • Motorized microscope stage and focus
  • Mouse or graphics tablet
  • PC computer running Microsoft Windows 2000 or later
  • Printer

Neurolucida is designed to operate on a wide variety of microscope instrumentation and PC hardware commonly used in laboratories. This versatility allows you to have a Neurolucida system configured to fit your exact research needs – and budget.

Neurolucida will meet your quantitative challenges in optical or video imaging using upright, inverted, electron, or confocal microscopes. Use any illumination technique including: brightfield, darkfield, phase contrast, and epifluorescence

Options for the microscope stage

Motor Driven Stage Advantages:

Neurolucida’s productivity and efficiency is optimized when a three-axis motor driven microscope stage is used. The software automatically maintains the registration of the graphics overlay with the microscope image when the stage is moved, allowing for integration of multiple fields of view. This feature ensures the fastest and most accurate data acquisition from objects larger than a single field of view. Focus encoders may also be used to obtain true closed-loop operation, allowing for volume measurements and accurate length measurements through serial sections or thick sections.

Hardware:

In keeping with its design goal of flexibility, Neurolucida can be used with a variety of motorized stages, stage position encoders and manual stages. For working with EM photomicrographs, a data tablet or scanner is sufficient. Neurolucida can be run on a standard desktop PC and is compatible with a wide variety of frame grabbers, monochrome and color printers, and slide makers.

MBF Bioscience is dedicated to supporting state-of-the-art equipment to insure that you will be able to use the latest technology available. Whether you use your current equipment or have us design a complete system for you, Neurolucida offers the greatest value for your investment.

Minimum System Requirements for the Software

  • PC Pentium® 4 processor (or AMD processor with similar benchmarks)
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating system
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 40GB Hard drive

Recommended System Requirements for the Software

These are the computer system requirements for running Stereo Investigator software.

  • PC Pentium dual core processor (or AMD processor with similar benchmarks)
  • Microsoft Windows Windows 2000, XP, or 32/64-bit Vista
  • 2 GB or more RAM
  • 80 GB or larger hard drive
  • Runs on the same hardware platform as our Stereo Investigator® system

For more information about Neurolucida, call MBF Bioscience at 802.288.9290 or click here to request a price quotation.