The real-time scratch counting system for laboratory animals “SCLABA^®-Real” catches up animal movement at 240 fps by the uniquely-developed high-speed camera embedded an image processor.
Besides, it calculates the area that animals move at every one frame (frame-to-frame difference) in the camera.
SCLABA^®-Real is a brand new system that quantifies “itching” by calculating the frequency and duration of scratching behavior automatically and in real time, based on above data.
(Engineering advice by Dr. Ishii Idaku, a professor at the Graduate School of Engineering at Hiroshima University)

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• Thinner recording platform
  Easy to move and store.

• Adoption of LED light sheet
  Uniformly irradiated light provides more accurate results.
• More sophisticated hardware design
  

By introducing the high-speed camera embedded an image processor, the overloading of PC is decreased.
Therefore, it can quantify and analyze scratching behavior in real time.
It is possible to measure scratching in real time for a maximum of 24 hours.
You can verify the data with saved movies.

It was needed to apply or put markers to laboratory animals for traditional methods to quantify scratching behavior.
However, SCLABA^®-Real need no markers at all.
This system enables you to evaluate animal behavior in more natural conditions by clearing off marking stresses.

Near-infrared lights are embedded into the proprietary recording platform.
It is possible to capture and quantify scratching behavior in the night and dark as well as daytime by using near-infrared light invisible to the animals.

SCLABA^®-Real system consists of a high-speed camera with an image processor, a near-infrared LED light panel, a video server, a proprietary recording platform with HUB, a PC installed the analysis software.
Recorded movies are sent to PC through the video server and HUB. You can check and verify the results with the dedicated software.

High-speed camera with an image processor

Special cage for mice

Proprietary recording platform

This system can save the frequency and duration of scratching behavior that are needed to evaluate the severity of the “itch”, with the movies.
You can reanalyze the data any number of times by changing parameters.
Frame-to-frame difference patterns are saved in conjunction with movies, thus you can verify if scratching was extracted adequately by checking both of them. The analyzed data is saved as CSV file.

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Frame-to-frame difference patterns

This software can measure the locomotor activity of mice by the data and movies of SCLABA^®-Real.
You can verify side effects through medication with evaluation of drug efficacy.

Display of the result and the graph

List of the result

Image display of the result

Movie display of the result

 

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