title: An oscilloscope spot intensifier, to improve photographic recordings of action potentials.
abstract: A circuit diagram is shown for a semiconductor device to intensify the brightness of an oscilloscope during the rapidly rising and falling phases of signals such as action potentials. Brightening pulses proportional in amplitude to the rate of change in the Y-axis are available for connection to an oscilloscope with an external intensity ('Z') modulation input. The circuit requires one transistor, one dual operational amplifier and two single fast operational amplifiers.
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010781:Photography