In development

Metris is continously innovating its products by listening carefully to the needs and requirements of its customers and potential customers. Metris is currently working on the following projects:

Laboras

Automatic classification of Dyskinesia in rats Dyskinesia is a disease with a complex pattern of behaviors, that is difficult to score in an objective way by human observers. Dyskinesia is often divided in the following categories of behaviours: Locomotive Dyskinesia (Lo), Limb Dyskinesia (Li), Orolingual Diskynesia (OL) and Axial Diskynesia (Ax). A consistent and reliable quantative measure is difficult to give for some of these categories. Laboras determines already several parameters and behaviours that are part of the dyskinesia symptoms. Special algorithms are developed to recognize new parameters and behaviours and to combine these parameters in a quantative measure between 1 and 5 for each of the dyskinesia categories.

Sonotrack

Realistic Playback of Ultrasound  (finished 1 Nov. 2008) The goal of this development is to play recorderd ultrasounds as accurately is possible, such that the animals that hear the sound will not easily recognize that the sound is coming from a speaker. From publications it is known that this is possible with rats and mice if the similarity or correlation of the played back sound and the real sound is better than 70%. Metris is developping a system that will use customized amplifiers and high quality speakers. The D/A conversion will be based on the National Instruments M-series data acquistion boards.

For a complete list of planned or on-going research and developments at Metris b.v. and Metris IT Solutions Ltd. please contact us: info@metris.nl

2008-12-30