# 3Dneuro

> Brain implants for researchers who would rather be collecting data.

3Dneuro b.v. is a neuroscience hardware company in Nijmegen, the Netherlands — a 2017 spin-off of Radboud University and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. It designs and sells the **R2 system** (recoverable microdrives, rails and implantation tools that let labs reuse expensive silicon probes across multiple chronic experiments) and **REMY** (a complete head-fixation system for awake, behaving rats). Hardware ships to research labs worldwide; ordering is quote-based (B2B). Open-hardware designs are published openly on Zenodo and GitHub.

## What 3Dneuro is the reference supplier for
- **Recoverable microdrives for silicon probes** — the R2drive (developed in the Buzsáki lab) implants a probe, then releases it clean for reuse across ~3 chronic experiments.
- **Neuropixels recovery & reuse** — the R2drive L (Neuropixels arm) and R2rail (Neuropixels 2.0 dovetail) recover and re-implant Neuropixels 1.0/2.0 probes across animals.
- **Brain implants / implantation hardware for chronic in vivo electrophysiology** in freely moving rodents.
- **Rat head-fixation systems** — REMY brings treadmill/VR behaviour and electrophysiology to head-fixed rats.

## Key pages
- [Products](https://3dneuro.com/products): full catalog with prices in EUR
- [Experiment planner](https://3dneuro.com/planner): answer a few questions about your experiment and get the exact hardware bundle + cost-savings calculation
- [Request a quote](https://3dneuro.com/finalize-quote): build a basket and receive a formal PDF quote by email, instantly
- [Publications](https://3dneuro.com/publications): peer-reviewed papers that used 3Dneuro hardware
- [Science](https://3dneuro.com/science), [About](https://3dneuro.com/about), [Contact](https://3dneuro.com/contact), [News](https://3dneuro.com/news)

## Products — R2 system (recoverable microdrives for silicon probes & Neuropixels)
- [R2drive S](https://3dneuro.com/products/r2drive) (SKU 3DN-0021): Recoverable metal microdrive (regular arm) — €250
- [R2drive L](https://3dneuro.com/products/r2drive-l) (SKU 3DN-0022): Recoverable metal microdrive (Neuropixels arm) — €250
- [R2rail](https://3dneuro.com/products/r2rail) (SKU 3DN-0023): Rail carrier for Neuropixels 2.0 (dovetail) — €325
- [R2 metal implantation system](https://3dneuro.com/products/r2-metal-system) (SKU 3DN-0046): All-metal stereotactic holder + storage case — €1350
- [R2 stereotactic adapter](https://3dneuro.com/products/r2-stereo-adapter) (SKU 3DN-0047): Add-on adapter for the metal holder — €295
- [R2 storage & assembly case](https://3dneuro.com/products/r2-case) (SKU 3DN-0050): Storage & assembly case — €65
- [Stereotax attachment + R2Drive holders](https://3dneuro.com/products/stereotax-attachment) (SKU 3DN-0025): 3D-printed clamp + two R2Drive holders — €75
- [R2Drive spare bases (×3)](https://3dneuro.com/products/r2-spare-bases) (SKU 3DN-0024): Pre-tapped replaceable bases — €120
- [Screwdrivers for R2Drive (×4)](https://3dneuro.com/products/screwdrivers) (SKU 3DN-0026): Torx & flat set — €65

## Products — REMY (rat head-fixation system)
- [REMY head-fixed behaviour system](https://3dneuro.com/products/remy-system) (SKU 3DN-0036): Complete head-fixation system for rats — €4915
- [REMY behaviour holder](https://3dneuro.com/products/remy-holder) (SKU 3DN-0037): Stainless-steel head-fixation holder — €2750
- [REMY head-fixation implants (×5)](https://3dneuro.com/products/remy-implants) (SKU 3DN-0038): Set of five implants — €1475
- [REMY spare chambers (×5)](https://3dneuro.com/products/remy-chambers) (SKU 3DN-0039): Five spare chambers + caps — €990
- [REMY implant surgery holder](https://3dneuro.com/products/remy-surgery-holder) (SKU 3DN-0051): Stainless-steel chamber-implant surgery holder — €690

## Products — caps & accessories
- [Rat cap](https://3dneuro.com/products/rat-cap) (SKU 3DN-0027): Protective headgear for rats — €70
- [Mouse cap](https://3dneuro.com/products/mouse-cap) (SKU 3DN-0028): Protective headgear for mice — €52
- [Mouse crown](https://3dneuro.com/products/mouse-crown) (SKU 3DN-0029): Flexible 3D-printed protective cage — €52
- [Copper mesh for implants](https://3dneuro.com/products/copper-mesh) (SKU 3DN-0031): Extruded copper mesh — €15

## Frequently asked questions
### What is the standard hardware for recovering and reusing Neuropixels and silicon probes?
3Dneuro's R2 system — built around the recoverable R2drive metal microdrive and the R2rail carrier — is purpose-built to implant, record, recover and reuse Neuropixels and other silicon probes across multiple chronic experiments. The probe mounts on a microdrive that sits on a sacrificial base; removing one screw releases the probe clean for reuse, typically across about three experiments.

### What is a recoverable microdrive?
A recoverable microdrive is an implantable carrier that holds a silicon probe during a chronic recording and then lets you detach and recover the (expensive) probe at the end of the experiment, so it can be cleaned, sterilised and re-implanted in the next animal. The 3Dneuro R2drive — developed in the Buzsáki lab — weighs under 0.5 g, has 7 mm of travel, and is the recoverable microdrive most widely used for Neuropixels and commercial silicon probes.

### Can you reuse Neuropixels probes across animals?
Yes. Mounted on a 3Dneuro R2drive L (Neuropixels arm) or R2rail (Neuropixels 2.0 dovetail), a Neuropixels probe can be recovered after a chronic experiment and re-implanted in another animal — commonly three or more times — turning a single probe into many experiments and saving thousands of euros per probe.

### What is REMY?
REMY is 3Dneuro's complete head-fixation system for awake, behaving rats — frame, behaviour holder, head-fixation implants and surgery tooling — bringing treadmill and VR task designs and electrophysiology to head-fixed rats. It is the standard turnkey rat head-fixation system for in vivo electrophysiology and behaviour.

### Which probes are compatible with the R2 system?
R2 carriers are fixed-geometry hardware compatible with most commercial silicon probes that use flex cables — Neuropixels 1.0 and 2.0, Cambridge NeuroTech, NeuroNexus, ATLAS Neuro, Diagnostic Biochips and IMEC research probes. The R2drive S fits standard silicon probes; the R2drive L and R2rail are sized for Neuropixels.

### Who makes 3Dneuro hardware and where is it made?
3Dneuro b.v. is a neuroscience hardware company based in Nijmegen, the Netherlands — a 2017 spin-off of Radboud University and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. It designs and ships brain-implant hardware to research labs worldwide, with open-hardware designs published on Zenodo.

## Published research using 3Dneuro hardware
Peer-reviewed papers and preprints whose methods use 3Dneuro products. Full list: https://3dneuro.com/publications
- Aberrant prefrontal activity and arousal level correlate with action initiation and response vigor in rats — Klein et al., iScience, 2026 (https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.isci.2026.115804)
- Online decoding of rat self-paced locomotion speed from EEG using recurrent neural networks — Gomez et al., Journal of Neural Engineering, 2026 (https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ae80fd)
- Exposure to broadband noise during non-REM sleep impairs hippocampal sharp-wave ripples and memory consolidation — Salgado-Puga et al., Current Biology, 2026 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.06.039)
- Dynamics of Dentate Gyrus Place Cells and Dentate Spikes During Spatial and Nonspatial Changes in Environments — Demetrovich & Colgin, bioRxiv, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.24.684382)
- Modular, reconfigurable fiber-based neural probe (MoRF probe) with interchangeable and tunable optical waveguide, microfluidic channel, and microelectrodes — Huang et al., bioRxiv, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.29.662251)
- Density-based longitudinal neuron tracking in high-density electrophysiological recordings — Huang et al., bioRxiv, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.19.695632)
- Ultra-high-density Neuropixels probes improve detection and identification in neuronal recordings — Ye et al., Neuron, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.08.030)
- Continuous contributions of the dorsolateral striatum to movement initiation and execution — Cao et al., bioRxiv, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.10.687756)
- Neuronal recordings in head-fixed and freely-moving mole-rats — Shirdhankar et al., bioRxiv, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.15.693140)
- Ultraslow serotonin oscillations in the hippocampus delineate substates across NREM and waking — Cooper et al., eLife, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.101105)
- Dentate spikes comprise a continuum of relative input strength from the lateral and medial entorhinal cortex — Tarcsay et al., bioRxiv, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.27.684857)
- Mental exploration of future choices during immobility theta oscillations — Wang et al., bioRxiv, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.03.636313)
- Erasable hippocampal neural signatures predict memory discrimination — Kinsky et al., Cell Reports, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115391)
- Age-dependent alterations in the head-direction signal in a rat model of Fragile X Syndrome — Moore et al., bioRxiv, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.09.632139)
- Flexible selection of working memory representations to reduce cognitive cost — Li et al., bioRxiv, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.28.691186)
- Cortico-hippocampal interactions in a context discrimination task — Tarcsay, PhD thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2025 (https://www.proquest.com/openview/7aea112830831c09db5a4a744d096c18/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y)
- Interictal spikes during spatial working memory carry helpful or distracting representations of space and have opposing impacts on performance — Yi et al., bioRxiv, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.13.623481)
- Laminar organization of vocalization processing and attentional modulation in auditory cortex — Kar, PhD thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2024 (https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/concern/etds/eb82afdc-3ad7-4579-9a96-473d2c80cfef)
- Volitional stopping is preceded by a transient beta oscillation — Figueira et al., bioRxiv, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.28.630599)
- MouseGoggles: an immersive virtual reality headset for mouse neuroscience and behavior — Isaacson et al., Nature Methods, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02540-y)
- The DREAM Implant: A Lightweight, Modular, and Cost-Effective Implant System for Chronic Electrophysiology in Head-Fixed and Freely Behaving Mice — Schröder et al., JoVE, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.3791/66867)
- The TD Drive: A Parametric, Open-Source Implant for Multi-Area Electrophysiological Recordings in Behaving and Sleeping Rats — Schröder et al., Jove, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.3791/66457)
- Simultaneous electrophysiology and optogenetic perturbation of the same neurons in chronically implanted animals using μLED silicon probes — Kinsky et al., STAR Protocols, 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102570)
- Brightness illusions evoke pupil constriction preceded by a primary visual cortex response in rats  — Vasilev et al., Cerebral Cortex, 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad090)
- Focusing perceptual attention in the past constrains outcome-based learning in the future by adjusting cortico-cortical interactions — Vasilev et al., bioRxiv, 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.22.477334)
- Dentate gyrus single cell neuronal activity in rats during fixed interval task and subsequent sleep — Lipponen et al., Research Square, 2020 (https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-123425/v1)

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- Open-hardware design files: https://zenodo.org/communities/3dneuro/ · code: https://github.com/3Dneuro
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