video tracking

SMART
Spontaneous Motor Activity Recording & Tracking

Video-based motor activity analysis

SDI’s SMART Video Tracking System is a powerful, versatile video-based motor activity analysis system that is excellent for tracing animal movements. With its digital imaging, SMART uses your PC to do extremely precise analysis of the animal’s motor behavior, freeing you from manual data collection. SMART works with animals located in up to 16 separate enclosures providing both quantitative and qualitative analyses of each animal’s path.

Each animal enclosure can be divided into zones using the SMART video tracking software. Data such as “distance traveled”, “time in zone”, “latency to enter zone”, “path angles” and other real time TV images or videotaped records are collected and stored enabling you to re-analyze experiments with different parameters. Digitized images are displayed on your computer screen for immediate feedback.

SMART’s animal tracking software takes full advantage of the Microsoft Windows® environment offering a flexible and easy to learn interface for setting up Morris Water Maze, Elevated Plus Maze, Radial 8 Arm Maze, Zero Maze, T-Maze, Y-Maze, Multi Unit Open Field, Single Unit Open Field and Place Preference tests. In addition, SMART can be utilized in virtually any user-designed application.

SMART Video Tracking System Features

• Flexible and precise analysis of motor behavior in user-defined "zones"
  
• "Frame Grabber" technology for superior tracking in low contrast or cluttered environments
• Brain comfortable software allows you to set up and start working in as little as one day
  
• Use in water maze and activity tests, place preference and many   other applications
  
• Multiple animal "social contact" software option  
• Activity mapping tool
  
• Multiple camera processing
• Day/Night cycle control system
  
• Automatic management of radial arm maze
  
• Forced swimming test
  
• Zone-dependent camera settings

SMART Video Tracking System Components

• Camcorder or camera
• Remote start/stop switch
• SMART software
• PC interface board
• Cables & connectors

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