Open Field

This pipline is developed to detect laser pulses received at the optic fibers on the animal’s head when moving freely in an open field. See example below.

It is necessary for to provide the stim_duration, inter_stim_interval in the config file. Here’s an example for a 30-second ON followed by 30-second OFF protocol.

You can see that the 4th pulse is barely captured by the side camera. Therefore, to make consistent detections the detection of these pulses are extrapolated from the solid detection (with durations complying with the stim_duration in specified in the config file). That is why it is important to input the specifics of the protocol in the config file.

Note

note that if none of the detected pulses are complient with the protocol but the detected pulse durations have very low variability, they are reported as they are without any correction applied.