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Wednesday September 26, 2007

The digital era brings a great opportunity to create a unified system for acquisition and documentation of imaging data. There are several companies (some of them listed below) which provide such multi-purpose systems for universal imaging of fluorescence, chemifluorescence, chemiluminescence, and chromogenic gels, blots and plates. When making the decision to purchase such a versatile system (which usually comes with rather hefty price tag), it is really important to consider several factors. One of the most important is the utilization of all of the bells and whistles. Are you going to use all of the options? How often? Could the system become a bottleneck of data acquisition in your lab? With what platform does it work: PC, Mac or both? Is the software user-friendly? Since your various images will be captured by the camera, knowing the camera’s specifications, like resolution, sensitivity, dynamic range, and memory capacity is essential too. Once you have narrowed down your search to 2-3 systems, contact the companies and request a demo. There is nothing better then trying it out in your own lab.

Andrzej Pietrzykowski, MD, PhD
Instructor
University of Massachusetts Medical School

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Company	Carestream Molecular Imaging (formerly Kodak Molecular Imaging Systems)	FUJIFILM Life Science	UVP
Item	Kodak Gel Logic 1500	Fujifilm LAS-4000 System Configured for Multifunctional Analysis	GelDoc-It System
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Description	KODAK Gel Logic 1500 Imaging System is an economical multi-purpose system for imaging of fluorescence, chemiluminescence, and chromogenic gels, blots and plates. The Gel Logic 1500 integrates... more	YBLAS4000CAM: The Fujifilm Life Science LAS-4000 imaging system combines new CCD camera technology with a simplified user interface, providing significantly improved system sensitivity with a wide range of modularities... more	The GelDoc-It Imaging System is designed as the laboratory gel documentation and image analysis workhorse. The compact design includes a benchtop transilluminator with a 25 x 26 cm filter and 302nm UV... more
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Lighting	Fluorescence Included Trans-UV, 306 nm Epi-UV, 370 nm Fluorescence Options Epi-UV, 254 nm Epi-UV, 306 nm Visible Included Epi-illumination white Trans-illumination white	Request Info	25 x 26 cm filter and 302nm UV benchtop transilluminator
Camera	1.4 mega pixel cooled CCD camera	Fujifilm Super CCD Area Type chip; 3.2 M pixels; Pixel Size: 10.75 x 10.75 µm	high resolution CCD camera
Software	WINDOWS 2000, WINDOWS XP	ScienceLab (MultiGauge)	Image Acquisition and Analysis Software is designed as a sophisticated software package for 1D analysis of gels, plates and membranes as well as colony counting. The user friendly software functions feature:
Zoom Lens	6X zoom, 12.5 - 75mm, f 1.2 – f 16	High sensitivity lens (FUJINON VRF43LMD)	Motorized F1.2 zoom
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