Typhoon Trio from GE Healthcare :Unites proven storage phosphor autoradiography technology with four-color, nonradioactive fluorescent labeling techniques. For DNA, RNA, and protein samples, choose from:

• Storage phosphor autoradiography
  
• Direct blue-excited fluorescence (457, 488 nm)
  
• Direct green-excited fluorescence (532 nm)
  
• Direct red-excited fluorescence (633 nm)
  
• Chemiluminescence

Key features:

Single- and multicolor fluorescence via direct laser excitation
Fluorescence imaging (high sensitivity and high resolution)
Radio isotopic imaging – quantitate 32P, 33P, 35S, 14C and 3H
Excitation:  20mW 532 nm, 14 mW 488 nm, 10 mW 635
Emission filters: 390 nm BP, 526 nm SP, 530 nm BP, 555 nm LP, 640 nm BP

• Versatile system handles gel sandwiches, agarose and polyacrylamide gels, membranes, microplates, and even microarrays.
• Powerful excitation sources and innovative high-quality confocal optics allow for the sensitive detection of low-abundance targets.
• Red-, green-, and blue-excitation wavelengths and a wide choice of emission filters enable imaging of an extensive variety of fluorophores.
• Automated four-color fluorescence scanning allows multiplexing of multiple targets in the same sample ensuring accuracy of analysis, increasing throughput, and saving time.
• Storage phosphor technology delivers high-resolution imaging and accurate quantitation of 3H, 14C, 125I, 32P, 33P, 35S, and other sources of ionizing radiation.
• Highly sensitive optics enable direct chemiluminescent imaging without intermediate exposure to films or screens.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Scan area  35 × 43 cm  Sensitivity (limit of detection)  Storage Phosphor: 14C (1 h exposure, 200 and 100 µm only): < 2 dpm/mm2; 32P: 5-10-fold lower than 14C 488 nm excited fluorescence:  100 amol FAM end-labeled DNA primer in 12% polyacrylamide gel sandwich, 0.4 mm thick 532 nm excited fluorescence:  200 amol HEX, TMR, ROX, and 400 amol FAM end-labeled DNA primer in 12% polyacrylamide gel sandwich, 0.4 mm thick 633 nm excited fluorescence:  200 amol Cy5 end-labeled DNA primer in 0.4 mm thick, 12% polyacrylamide gel with TBE buffer.  Pixel size  1000, 500, 200, 100, 50, 25, and 10 µm, selectable.  Spatial resolution  Autoradiography: 2 line pairs/mm for lines drawn with 14C ink. Blue-excited fluorescence: 10 line pairs/mm Green-excited fluorescence: 10 line pairs/mm Red-excited fluorescence: 10 line pairs/mm  Uniformity  ± 5% over entire scan area.  Pixel accuracy  ± 0.15%  Data format  16-bit (65 536 levels), TIFF  Linear dynamic range and linearity  Five orders of magnitude (100 000:1) with less than 7.5% relative standard deviation for entire dynamic range.  Red light source  Type: 10 mW Helium-Neon laser Estimated average lifetime: ~ 10 000 h Wavelength: 632.8 nm  Green light source  Type: 20 mW solid-state doubled frequency SYAG laser  Estimated average lifetime: ~ 10 000 h Wavelength: 532 nm  Blue light source  Type: 30 mW all blue lines Argon ion laser  Estimated average lifetime: ~ 5000 h Wavelength: 488 nm (20 mW) and 457 nm (4 mW)