NETWORK DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR NEUROSCIENCE

目前神经科学研究的趋势是确定大量信息处理神经元与行为的关系。传感器和电极技术使我们有可能接触到大量(&gt；100)神经元。研究人员需要从这些传感器收集数据，并在线处理这些数据，作为理解更复杂的神经网络相互作用的关键下一步。需要开发一种可扩展系统的技术，该系统可以同时记录数据和动态处理数据，以便对正在研究的系统进行实时交互管理和控制。为了满足对如此大量通道的需求，R.C.电子公司计划对其现有的记录器进行改装，以提供多个记录器之间的时间同步能力，以及用于与其他信号处理系统接口的基于高速网络的通信端口。此外，NDA的提供将使研究人员通过高速互联网广泛获得多通道数据。建议的商业应用：作为研究和教学工具，计算神经科学市场对高频多通道网络数据采集系统有市场需求。存在着声学、振动、冲击和声纳的航空、工业和军事市场，其中高频多通道记录和处理需要500个或更多通道。

The current trend in neuroscience research is to determine how large populations of information processing neurons relate to behavior. Sensor and electrode technology makes it possible to access large numbers (>100) of neurons. Researchers need to collect data from these sensors and to process the data on-line as a critical next step for understanding more complex neural network interactions. Technology needs to be developed for a scalable system that can simultaneously record data and process data on the fly for real time interactive management and control of the system under study. To address the need for such a large number of channels, R.C. Electronics Inc. plans to modify its existing recorder to provide time synchronization capability between multiple recorders and a high speed network based communication port for interfacing to other signal processing systems. In addition, the availability of NDAS would make multichannel data widely available to researchers through the high speed internet. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: There is a market demand for high frequency multichannel Network Data Acquisition Systems in the computational neuroscience market as a research and teaching tool. There exists an aerospace, industrial, and military market in acoustic, vibration, shock, and sonar where high frequency multichannel recording and processing requires 500 or more channels.