Overview

EthoVision XT is the state-of-the-art video-tracking system that automatically records animal activity and movement, including motility and explorative behaviour.

How does it work?

1. Predefine a complete experiment to include a trial list and independent variables for automatic data selection.
2. Identify body point centre of any animal and the nose point and tail base point of rats and mice. Nose point tracking enables automatic measurement of explorative behaviour (approaching an object headfirst, risk assessment at the entrance to open arms on an elevated plus-maze)
3. Automated start and stop tracking according to conditions, i.e. when the animal has been in a specific location for a defined period of time, or went from one zone to another. With multiple arenas, a generic start condition can be applied to each arena individually.
4. When working with telemetry or other external physiological data from a data acquisition system, EthoVision XT can send out a signal to synchronise the acquired data and the tracking data obtained with EthoVision XT.
5. Visualise your data, along with external data streams. Export tracks for presentations.
6. Automatically analyse your data including parameter selection: velocity, distance moved and in zone, as well as elongation (stretch-attend postures), mobility (Forced swim test, freezing behaviour), and head direction parameters like rotations. You can also calculate the number and sequence of zone entries, particularly interesting in the radial maze test; nesting (by zone, time or behaviour), data grouping and export.

Features and Benefits

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