After setting up the virtual drum and video oculography, fix the animal's head on a customized stage. Adjust the tilt of the head so that the left and right eyes are leveled and the nasal and temporal corners of the eyes are aligned horizontally. Transfer the stage with the head-fixed animal to the center of the enclosure formed by the three monitors.
Open the eye tracking software and click Free run. Then, click the Run button to turn on the camera. Adjust the position of the right eye until it appears at the center of the video.
Rotate the camera arm to the left extreme end. Then, manually move the animal's right eye position on the horizontal plane perpendicular to the optical axis with fine adjustment of the 2D translational stage until the X-corneal reflection is at the horizontal center of the image. Now rotate the camera arm to the other end, and if the X-corneal reflection runs away from the center of the image, move the right eye along the optical axis with the fine adjustment until the X-corneal reflection comes to the center.
Repeat several times until the X-corneal reflection stays in the center when the camera arm swings left and right. Click on the Calibration button and then the Run button. Turn on the Y-corneal reflection LED and record its position on the video.
Then, switch to the X-corneal reflection LED and record its position. To measure the radius of pupil rotation, rotate the camera arm to the left end. Record the positions of the pupil and X-corneal reflection on the video by right-clicking the mouse, then rotate the camera arm to the right end.
Record the positions of the pupil and X-corneal reflection on the video. Based on the recorded values, calculate the radius of pupil rotation, Rp, using this formula. To develop the relationship between pupil rotation and pupil diameter, adjust the luminance of the monitors from 0 to 160 candela per square meter to control the pupil size, and record the pupil diameter for each luminance value.
For each luminance value, measure the radius of pupil rotation 8 to 10 times and record the diameter of the pupil. Then, use linear regression to analyze the relationship between the radius of pupil rotation, Rp, and pupil diameter, and to derive the slope and intercept of the linear model.
