We are happy to announce the release of Brainsight 2.5.8.

Before proceeding with this update, please read the following important information.

Minimum requirements:

• macOS 10.13 High Sierra is now the minimum requirement, increased from macOS 10.11 El Capitan in Brainsight 2.4. For a free update, visit <https://support.apple.com/macos/upgrade>. Contact us if you need to upgrade your Mac hardware.
• This version of Brainsight was tested against macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra), 10.14.6 (Mojave), 10.15.7 (Catalina), 11.7.10 (Big Sur), 12.7.6 (Monterey), 13.7.2 (Ventura), 14.7.3 (Sonoma), and 15.3.2 (Sequoia).
• Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra) and earlier are unsupported. Support for 10.13 and 10.14 will be ending soon.

Changes since version 2.5.7:

• Fixed a bug in the ‘create-target-at-location’ packet in the network protocol where the reported index path of the created target would (usually) be incorrect if there were any folders amongst the session’s targets.
• Changed the ‘create-target-at-location’ packet in the network protocol to allow the target position to be unspecified, in which case the target will be positioned at the current crosshairs position in the Session Perform window.
• When exporting curvilinear reconstructions to a file, they are now always coloured using the anatomical’s voxels. For curvilinears created from ROI, this is a bug fix because previously they weren’t being coloured at all. For curvilinears from overlays, this is a behaviour change as they were previously coloured from the overlay they were created from.
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs.

Download:

• Brainsight 2.5.8 can be downloaded from our website here: <https://www.rogue-research.com/downloads>
• You might also need to download the latest “Support Files Human” and/or “Support Files Vet” if you have an older version. Brainsight will warn at launch if that’s the case.
• You’ll need your serial number, which you can get from Brainsight itself from the Brainsight menu > ‘Enter/View Serial Number’.

Feedback:

• Please report any and all bugs, feedback, suggestions, etc. to <support@rogue-research.com> or by phone at +1-866-984-3888 (Canada & USA) or +1-514-284-3888.

Thank you,

The Rogue Research Team

Join Rogue Research Inc. at this year’s annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Boston, Massachusetts from March 29 – April 1, 2025. Rogue Research has supported cognitive neuroscientists for 25 years with powerful tools to understand brain function and anatomy, and we look forward to sharing updates with our community of over 1,000 users.  Most recently we’ve combined robotics and custom communication protocols to allow real-time integration of brain stimulation with other live data sources. We invite you to chat with our team of experts and look forward to seeing the latest research in Boston.

We are happy to announce the release of Brainsight 2.5.7.

Before proceeding with this update, please read the following important information.

Minimum requirements:

• macOS 10.13 High Sierra is now the minimum requirement, increased from macOS 10.11 El Capitan in Brainsight 2.4. For a free update, visit <https://support.apple.com/macos/upgrade>. Contact us if you need to upgrade your Mac hardware.
• This version of Brainsight was tested against macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra), 10.14.6 (Mojave), 10.15.7 (Catalina), 11.7.10 (Big Sur), 12.7.6 (Monterey), 13.7.2 (Ventura), 14.7.2 (Sonoma), and 15.3 (Sequoia).
• Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra) and earlier are unsupported. Support for 10.13 and 10.14 will be ending soon.

Changes since version 2.5.6:

• Fixed a bug in the ‘create-target-at-location’ packet in the network protocol where the reported index path of the created target would (usually) be incorrect if there were any folders amongst the session’s targets.
• Changed the ‘create-target-at-location’ packet in the network protocol to allow the target position to be unspecified, in which case the target will be positioned at the current crosshairs position in the Session Perform window.
• When exporting curvilinear reconstructions to a file, they are now always coloured using the anatomical’s voxels. For curvilinears created from ROI, this is a bug fix because previously they weren’t being coloured at all. For curvilinears from overlays, this is a behaviour change as they were previously coloured from the overlay they were created from.
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs.

Download:

• Brainsight 2.5.7 can be downloaded from our website here: <https://www.rogue-research.com/downloads>
• You might also need to download the latest “Support Files Human” and/or “Support Files Vet” if you have an older version. Brainsight will warn at launch if that’s the case.
• You’ll need your serial number, which you can get from Brainsight itself from the Brainsight menu > ‘Enter/View Serial Number’.

Feedback:

• Please report any and all bugs, feedback, suggestions, etc. to <support@rogue-research.com> or by phone at +1-866-984-3888 (Canada & USA) or +1-514-284-3888.

Thank you,

The Rogue Research Team

We are happy to announce the release of Brainsight 2.5.6.

Before proceeding with this update, please read the following important information.

Minimum requirements:

• macOS 10.13 High Sierra is now the minimum requirement, increased from macOS 10.11 El Capitan in Brainsight 2.4. For a free update, visit <https://support.apple.com/macos/upgrade>. Contact us if you need to upgrade your Mac hardware.
• This version of Brainsight was tested against macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra), 10.14.6 (Mojave), 10.15.7 (Catalina), 11.7.10 (Big Sur), 12.7.6 (Monterey), 13.7.2 (Ventura), 14.7.2 (Sonoma), and 15.3 (Sequoia).
• Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra) and earlier are unsupported. Support for 10.13 and 10.14 will be ending soon.

Changes since version 2.5.5:

• Brainsight can now act as a TCP/IP network server, and accept connections from one or more client applications. Clients can request that Brainsight perform certain actions, and Brainsight can inform clients when certain events occur. We provide documentation for the network communication protocol and sample Python code. (This feature requires at least macOS 10.14, and 10.15 for full functionality.)
• Oblique images (inline, inline 90, and perpendicular) use a better interpolation algorithm and thus now appear less grainy.
• Fixed a bug where long EMG channel names (from NEURO PRAX) were sometimes truncated in the legend.
• Added a warning if the NEURO PRAX measurement list is changed during a Brainsight session. This was never supported, and could corrupt data.
• Improved error messages when connection to a network-based Polaris fails.
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs.

Download:

• Brainsight 2.5.6 can be downloaded from our website here: <https://www.rogue-research.com/downloads>
• You might also need to download the latest “Support Files Human” and/or “Support Files Vet” if you have an older version. Brainsight will warn at launch if that’s the case.
• You’ll need your serial number, which you can get from Brainsight itself from the Brainsight menu > ‘Enter/View Serial Number’.

Feedback:

• Please report any and all bugs, feedback, suggestions, etc. to <support@rogue-research.com> or by phone at +1-866-984-3888 (Canada & USA) or +1-514-284-3888.

Thank you,

The Rogue Research Team

Rogue Research invites you to join us at the 6th International Brain Stimulation Conference in Kobe, Japan, February 23–26, 2025. We will be exhibiting at Booths 41 & 42, where our team of experts will be on hand to walk you through the latest technology in image-guided human brain stimulation and veterinary neurosurgery.  In addition, on Monday, February 24, 2025,  7:30 am – 8:30 am, we will be hosting a workshop, “From target to delivery: Integrated pipeline to facilitate deployment of individualized NIBS”, where Roch Comeau, President of Rogue Research, will discuss the current state of our vision for a collaborative brain stimulation platform that integrates all the steps from target selection to placement optimization using modeling, to stimulation delivery using our Brainsight-controlled robot. Interested individuals can register for the event here.  Looking forward to seeing you in Japan!

We are happy to announce the release of Brainsight 2.5.5.

Before proceeding with this update, please read the following important information.

Minimum requirements:

• macOS 10.13 High Sierra is now the minimum requirement, increased from macOS 10.11 El Capitan in Brainsight 2.4. For a free update, visit <https://support.apple.com/macos/upgrade>. Contact us if you need to upgrade your Mac hardware.
• This version of Brainsight was tested against macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra), 10.14.6 (Mojave), 10.15.7 (Catalina), 11.7.10 (Big Sur), 12.7.6 (Monterey), 13.7.1 (Ventura), 14.7.1 (Sonoma), and 15.1.1 (Sequoia).
• Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra) and earlier are unsupported. Support for 10.13 and 10.14 will be ending soon.

Changes since version 2.5.4:

• Made substantial improvements to Vet Robot tool calibration. The workflow is mostly the same except that you no longer need to identify the tool tip and shaft in both cameras simultaneously, you can instead do so in one camera at a time, which is helpful as the camera field of view is small and it can be hard to position a tool to be visible in both simultaneously. The algorithm that calculates the tool calibration is also much improved, giving more accurate tool calibrations.
• Improved Vet Robot tool-relative movement user interface to be more intuitive, and consistently move and rotate the tool around its axes: injection/retraction, left/right, forward/backward. Previously, the behaviour was not predictable.
• Vet Robot target reachability checks now have the option of checking that not only is the target itself reachable, but that a few millimetres deeper is also reachable. A new textfield in the Perform window allows setting this amount.
• Improved Vet Robot stereo calibration for small animal systems, to better cover the cameras’ field of view.
• Fixed a rare bug where Vet Robot stereo calibration could get stuck in an infinite loop.
• When importing targets from a text file, if the coordinate system name is set to “Relative”, the positions in the file can be interpreted as relative to another (already-existing) target.
• Fixed a bug where projects based on a SimNIBS .gmsh file could get the NIfTI sform and qform confused and result in an error message when invoking BabelBrain to perform a TMS simulation.
• Fixed a bug where Polaris tool tracking could sometimes show the subject tracker move with respect to the subject’s head. This was merely a visual glitch, and did not affect correctness.
• Improved performance working with many targets (example: big grids).
• Improved performance working with many electrodes (example: big EEG/NIRS caps).
• Improved performance opening .dxf files.
• The Polaris firmware version number is now shown in the Polaris Configuration window.
• In waveform views, when in staggered mode, you can now click a waveform to get a tooltip showing the channel name.
• Fixed a crash opening corrupt project files.
• Fixed a bug where recalibrating a NIRS block would program an incorrect version number into the block’s memory.
• Fixed a bug where the bullseye view would show a TMS coil in the background when a fUS tool was being used.
• Fixed a bug where the Vet Robot firmware version number would sometimes be displayed incorrectly.
• Fixed a bug where changing a sample’s EMG peak-to-peak value or its “contribute” checkbox would fail to refresh the sample’s colour in 2D and 3D views.
• Fixed a bug where changing the time index in a 4D overlay would sometimes fail to refresh 2D and 3D views.
• Fixed a bug where, if there were multiple surface reconstructions, changing the colour or other attribute of one would sometimes fail to refresh 3D views.
• Fixed a bug where, if there were multiple curvilinear reconstructions, changing the peel depth of one would sometimes fail to refresh 3D views.
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs.

Download:

• Brainsight 2.5.5 can be downloaded from our website here: <https://www.rogue-research.com/downloads>
• You might also need to download the latest “Support Files Human” and/or “Support Files Vet” if you have an older version. Brainsight will warn at launch if that’s the case.
• You’ll need your serial number, which you can get from Brainsight itself from the Brainsight menu > ‘Enter/View Serial Number’.

Feedback:

• Please report any and all bugs, feedback, suggestions, etc. to <support@rogue-research.com> or by phone at +1-866-984-3888 (Canada & USA) or +1-514-284-3888.

Thank you,

The Rogue Research Team

Rogue Research invites you to join us at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Sunday October 6–Wednesday, October 9, at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, USA where we will be exhibiting at Booths 578 & 579. Our Montreal- and US-based team will be on hand to demonstrate the latest technology in human brain stimulation and veterinary image-guided neurosurgery, including advancements in robotics, next-generation Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, and an early look at our Elevate platform for remote delivery of protocols for clinical trials and treatment. We’ll also be offering training and Q&A sessions for users wishing to speak to our team of experts. We look forward to connecting with the neuroscience community in Chicago!

We are happy to announce the release of Brainsight 2.5.4.

Before proceeding with this update, please read the following important information.

Minimum requirements:

• macOS 10.13 High Sierra is now the minimum requirement, increased from macOS 10.11 El Capitan in Brainsight 2.4. For a free update, visit <https://support.apple.com/macos/upgrade>. Contact us if you need to upgrade your Mac hardware.
• This version of Brainsight was tested against macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra), 10.14.6 (Mojave), 10.15.7 (Catalina), 11.7.10 (Big Sur), 12.7.5 (Monterey), 13.6.7 (Ventura), and 14.5 (Sonoma).
• Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra) and earlier are unsupported.

Changes since version 2.5.3:

• Moved some user interface controls from the bottom to the top of the window, namely the 3D Crosshairs and Driver popup buttons. This gives more vertical space for images and makes the contents of the popup menu less likely to overflow.
• Added a new option in the Trigger Options window to allow creating samples even when the relevant Polaris tools are not visible (by default samples cannot be created when, for example, the coil tracker is not visible.)
• Now default to looking for SimNIBS 4.1 (newest at time of writing), instead of 4.0. If you have an older (or newer) version, adjust the path in Brainsight > Settings.
• Added a fourth set of tool-relative Vet Robot movement controls that only have buttons to inject and retract the tool. The controls that allow the more dangerous tool-relative rotations are now separated in a different pane.
• No longer allow Vet Robot to move to a marker-type target, only to trajectory-type targets. This is a safety precaution because, although markers technically have an orientation, it’s not displayed, and so the robot risks moving in an unexpected direction.
• Fixed a bug where Vet Robot subject registration would fail if the skull reconstruction was not watertight and consisted of several disjoint pieces and one of the initial registration landmarks was touching a secondary piece.
• For Vet Robot sessions, the default threshold range in the Validation step was tightened from 0.5 to 0.3 mm, reflecting recent improvements in system accuracy.
• Made various improvements for Axilum Robot / Cobot support:
  • An error message is now shown if the Cobot is not in MCP (manual control panel) mode.
  • Added functionality to switch Cobot sides.
  • The force sensor check procedure must now be redone if the coil is changed, or if two hours has elapsed.
  • Coil names are now partly anonymized, to no longer reveal if a sham coil is being used (to help with blind studies).
  • Extended the range of the contact sensor sensitivity.
• The Polaris Lyra is now configured to track at 30 Hz instead of 20 Hz.
• Fixed a bug where a bumps to a Polaris were not reported.
• Fixed a bug that could result in a failure to read some valid NIfTI files, for example those generated by BabelBrain.
• Fixed a bug where vector field arrows (for TMS simulation for example) sometimes did not display when then should have.
• Fixed a bug where 4D datasets with exactly 4 time components would be interpreted and drawn as vector fields.
• Added a new fUS transducer option for 3D Crosshairs shape.
• Added a new button next to the scene selection popup menu to quickly customize a view.
• A TMS coil is no longer shown in bullseye views when the selected tool calibration is fUS-type.
• Creating a surface/skin reconstruction is now about 25% faster.
• Creating a curvilinear reconstruction is now about 35% faster.
• Fixed various crashes that could occur opening corrupt files.
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs.

Download:

• Brainsight 2.5.4 can be downloaded from our website here: <https://www.rogue-research.com/downloads>
• You might also need to download the latest “Support Files Human” and/or “Support Files Vet” if you have an older version. Brainsight will warn at launch if that’s the case.
• You’ll need your serial number, which you can get from Brainsight itself from the Brainsight menu > ‘Enter/View Serial Number’.

Feedback:

• Please report any and all bugs, feedback, suggestions, etc. to <support@rogue-research.com> or by phone at +1-866-984-3888 (Canada & USA) or +1-514-284-3888.

Thank you,

The Rogue Research Team

Join Rogue Research at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) in Seoul, South Korea this June 23 –27, where we will be exhibiting at Booths 407 & 408.  In addition to  demonstrating the latest advances in image-guided brain stimulation and veterinary neurosurgery, we look forward to speaking with the many users of our technology and gaining feedback from the field. Rogue Research shares OHBM’s mission of advancing the understanding of the anatomical and functional organization of the human brain, working with researchers to provide the best tools to achieve their research goals. 

Our team will be available to discuss both hardware advances including robotics for human and animal research, and software updates that integrate state-of-the-art modeling to assist in planning an image-guided study. We look forward to connecting with you in Seoul! 

We are happy to announce the release of Brainsight 2.5.3.

Before proceeding with this update, please read the following important information.

Minimum requirements:

• macOS 10.13 High Sierra is now the minimum requirement, increased from macOS 10.11 El Capitan in Brainsight 2.4. For a free update, visit <https://support.apple.com/macos/upgrade>. Contact us if you need to upgrade your Mac hardware.
• This version of Brainsight was tested against macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra), 10.14.6 (Mojave), 10.15.7 (Catalina), 11.7.10 (Big Sur), 12.7 (Monterey), 13.6 (Ventura), and 14.3 (Sonoma).
• Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra) and earlier are unsupported.

Changes since version 2.5.2:

• Brainsight can now simulate the acoustic effect of transcranial focused ultrasound (fUS) at a target location. It does this by interacting with BabelBrain, a third party software that must be installed separately. The Targets window now allows invoking BabelBrain, wherein simulation parameters can be set. The resulting simulation appears overlaid in 2D and 3D images, and can be customized from the Inspector window.
• When writing to our .txt file formats, we now use slightly different coordinate system names for NIfTI files, which may require updating code that reads these files. The coordinate system name now includes whether it’s from the file’s sform or qform. So, for example, where we used to use a string like “NIfTI:Scanner” we now use “NIfTI:Q:Scanner”. For this reason, exported .txt files increased from version 13 to 14, and .txt files created by streaming increased from version 6 to 7.
• Improved performance when creating hundreds of samples. There should be noticeably less latency between the trigger that creates a sample and its appearance in the application.
• Substantially improved accuracy of Vet Robot subject registration, thus improving accuracy results overall.
• Fixed a bug, introduced only in 2.5.2, where selecting two or more samples was not showing the average waveform for EEG and NIRS views (but was for EMG views).
• Fixed a bug where EMG waveform views sometimes did not show the visual indication (crosshatching) of when a waveform has exceeded the EMG pod device’s maximum range of 2.25 mV.
• Fixed a bug in EMG views where the line indicating the EMG latency would sometimes not redraw after the time range was changed (with the green vertical bars).
• Fixed a bug where electrodes could still be clicked in 3D views, even when all electrodes were hidden.
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs.

Download:

• Brainsight 2.5.3 can be downloaded from our website here: <https://www.rogue-research.com/downloads>
• You might also need to download the latest “Support Files Human” and/or “Support Files Vet” if you have an older version. Brainsight will warn at launch if that’s the case.
• You’ll need your serial number, which you can get from Brainsight itself from the Brainsight menu > ‘Enter/View Serial Number’.

Feedback:

• Please report any and all bugs, feedback, suggestions, etc. to <support@rogue-research.com> or by phone at +1-866-984-3888 (Canada & USA) or +1-514-284-3888.

Thank you,

The Rogue Research Team