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Passive unobstructed running wheel
Innovative wheel design avoids obstruction and restraint artifacts — natural limb locomotion closer to spontaneous running.
Motor Function
Passive Running Wheel Acquisition System
Head Fixation · High-Precision Motion Capture
Designed for mouse motor function and multimodal synchronized acquisition in neuroscience experiments — an innovative passive unobstructed running wheel with head fixation above the wheel and free limb locomotion. High-resolution optical encoders enable real-time, high-precision capture of distance, speed, direction, and more. Integrates with eye tracking, electrophysiology, and optogenetics for precise behavior-neural signal synchronization.
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Unobstructed wheel
Enc
Optical encoder
Sync
Multimodal sync
Head-Fixed Locomotion Recording
Features
Preserves natural wheel locomotion under head fixation — stable, reproducible behavioral readouts for combined motor and neural research.
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Head-fixed experiment design
Head fixed above the wheel — compatible with in vivo imaging, electrophysiology, and optogenetics requiring stable neural recording.
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High-resolution optical encoding
Optical encoder real-time pulses — precise conversion to distance, speed, and rotation direction.
Motion Capture
Real-time, high-precision wheel locomotion metrics — motor assessment and neural-behavior correlation analysis.
Locomotion distance
Cumulative and segmented distance — endurance and activity assessment.
Real-time speed
Millisecond-level speed curves — acceleration, deceleration, and fluctuation patterns.
Movement direction
Forward/reverse discrimination — direction preference and switching behavior.
Locomotion bout analysis
Automatic bout onset/offset, duration, and inter-bout intervals — locomotion structure quantification.
High temporal resolution
High sampling-rate encoder signals — precise temporal alignment with neural data.
Data export & visualization
Speed curves, distance stats, and raw pulse sequences — one-click export for downstream analysis.
Multimodal Sync
Built-in sync interfaces for eye tracking, electrophysiology, optogenetics, and more — precise behavior-neural joint recording.
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Eye tracking integration
Synchronized wheel locomotion and eye tracking — visual-motor coupling under head fixation.
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Electrophysiology synchronization
Align locomotion events with spike/LFP timestamps — motor-related neural activity parsing.
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Optogenetics experiment support
Precise alignment of optical stimulation and wheel behavior — circuit intervention effects on motor output.
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Multi-channel TTL triggering
External TTL in/out — flexible integration with existing lab hardware ecosystems.
Applications
Supporting motor cortex research, basal ganglia circuits, fatigue/endurance assessment, and multimodal neuroscience experiments.
Motor function assessment
Quantify locomotion under head fixation — motor deficit and recovery assessment.
Neural circuit mechanism research
Link wheel locomotion to regional brain activity — motor initiation and control circuit parsing.
Multimodal joint experiments
One-stop synchronized behavior + eye tracking + electrophysiology/optogenetics experiment design.
Drug & intervention evaluation
Objective quantification of drug or genetic intervention effects on distance, speed, and bout patterns.
Specifications
Passive running wheel acquisition solution for head-fixed multimodal experiments.
SubjectsMice · head-fixed wheel locomotion
StructurePassive unobstructed wheel · head fixation mount
ParametersDistance · speed · direction · bout timing
IntegrationEye tracking · electrophysiology · optogenetics · TTL sync
DeploymentOn-site install · sync calibration · experiment design support
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