GelPro Imager for Gel Analysis

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The total solution for electrophoresis image analysis.

Gel-Pro Imager Kit with UV Transilluminator

Gel-Pro Analyzer image analysis software is included.

Image Processing Solutions provides fully integrated image analysis solutions that are fast, reliable and accurate.

Our products provide sophisticated, yet easy-to-use solutions for the control and automation of image acquisition devices and image analysis.

Designed for researchers, scientists, lab technicians, engineers, and quality assurance and R&D specialists, these products give you easier, faster, and more accurate ways to visualize, collect, and analyze your images.

The Gel-Pro^® Imager is a complete system for digital imaging, documentation and analysis of DNA, protein and membrane samples. The kit features a camera system with a LCD monitor and controller built into the enclosure unit. The entire unit mounts on any transilluminator. It has built-in white light epi-illumination and an ultraviolet (UV)-protected viewing port, which aids band excising. The kit includes Media Cybernetics’ highly acclaimed Gel-Pro Analyzer software, which enables qualitative molecular weight analysis, quantitative amount analysis and reporting for gels and dot/slot blots.

Don’t risk valuable time and money by attempting to use poorly integrated software and hardware components. Gel-Pro Imager is the total integrated solution for electrophoresis image analysis. This kit provides you with a better price/performance solution with guaranteed compatibility – all from one source!

Gel-Pro Imager can operate as a stand-alone system with a video printer attached for quick and easy documentation and/or interfaced to a PC for image storage, analysis and reporting. At less than 18 inches high and weighing less than 20 pounds, this complete compact system can easily be mounted and moved from UV to white light transilluminators.

The kit operates in transillumination mode (UV fluorescence or white light) for all kinds of gels (agarose ethidium bromide, Coomassie blue, silver stained). It also operates in reflectance mode (standard white light with ballasting that supports UV lamps) for documentation of Western, Southern and Northern blots. The enclosure has an easy access door panel to allow gel placement on the transillumination surface. At the top, there is an UV protected viewing portal to confirm fluorescence and enable band excising without exposure to UV radiation.

OPTIMIZED FOR YOUR LAB WORKFLOW

View and output to a thermal printer for quick documentation without involving a computer
Send the image to a PC when you need to store, analyze and report
Place on any transilluminator

THE GEL-PRO IMAGER KIT INCLUDES:

Gel-Pro Analyzer software
High sensitivity video camera system
Macro zoom lens assembly
Ethidium bromide filter
Enclosure housing with front door access
UV-safe viewing window
Built-in camera controller
Built-in LCD monitor/control screen
Built-in white light side epi-illumination
PCI frame grabber for a PC
Pentium computer

Video cable

THE CAMERA SYSTEM INCLUDES:

Active video output via BNC port to enable video printer hard copy or interface to frame grabber on PC
Control panel built into the enclosure unit with integration time, gamma, black level and gain control
Built-in on-chip integration (1/10,000 to 10 sec) to achieve sensitivity of 0.1 ng DNA per band on ethidium bromide stained agarose gels
Easily accessible zoom lens assembly (aperture con-trol, zoom, focus) to enable documentation of sam-ples from 4 X 5 cm to 16 X 20 cm
Standard ethidium bromide fluorescence filter (590 nm)
Standard internal near infrared (NIR) detector filter
Five pre-set buttons to recall camera parameter set-tings for standard lab assays
A still button to freeze camera frame acquisition for review

THE GEL-PRO IMAGER KIT INCLUDES THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED GEL-PRO ANALYZER SOFTWARE:

Understandable user interface based on actual laboratory protocols and terminology

Automatic identification of lanes and bands in an image

Automatic identification of molecular weight via standards

Analysis correction for irregular gels (manual or automatic with MW standards)

Quantitation via ratios, amount loaded or building a calibration curve

Experiment recording and replay with easy-to-use macro tools

Output experiment results from Gel-Pro straight to MS Excel™ or other DDE supported applications

Experiment library and laboratory notes management

Complete hardcopy documentation with on-line help

One year of maintenance, providing full technical support is included with Gel-Pro!

THE IMAGE DATABASE ALLOWS EASY AND EFFICIENT CAPTURE, STORAGE, AND RETRIEVAL OF IMAGES

Allows users to view thumbnails of images

Saves extensive information with each thumbnail

Provides user-customizable fields for image information

Organizes and searches thumbnails by any database criteria

Compatible with MS Access databases

Includes macro support, compatible with Gel-Pro macro creation utilities

VAST IMAGE AND DATA FILE FORMAT SUPPORT

Read, write and convert files in TIFF, HPP, BMP, CUT, EPS, JPEG, Photo CD, PCT, PCX, TGA, and FLAT (Binary)

Supports 1-, 8-, 12-, 16-, 24- and 32-bit floating point images

JPEG, LZW and RLE compression supported

Output data files to ASCII, WK1 or XLS as input for spreadsheets

Transfer images, data graphs and data files via DDE or Clipboard

Camera Specifications
CCD elements	795x596 (110V; RS170) 811x508 (220V; CCIR)
Scanning system	2:1 Interlace
Minimum illumination	0.2 Lux @ f/1.2 & shutter speed 1/50 0.0004 Lux @ f/1.2 & 500 fields of integration
Electronic shutter; frame update	1/10,000 to 10 sec
Resolution	More than 570 TV lines
Signal/Noise	More than 46db @ AGC off
Gamma correction	Selectable at 0.45 or 1.0
Frame storage	Still function
Video Output	Composite video signal, 1.0Vpp @ 75 ohm
Power consumption	12 W

Computer Specifications
CPU/Speed	Pentium III/750MHz
Memory	64 Mb
Hard Drive	4 Gb
Chassis	Desktop style
Monitor	17" .27 mm dot pitch
VGA Card Display	8 Mb, 1280 x 1024 x 16.7 million colors
Operating System	Windows 98
Misc	Keyboard, Mouse, 2 serial, 1 parallel and 1 USB port(s)

Frame Grabber Specifications
Image Capture Resolution	640 x 480 pixels
Maximum gray scale acquisition	256 level (8 bits)
PCI Bus Mastering Speed	133 MHz
Video Inputs	Four monochrome

For further information, or a product demonstration, please feel free to contact IPS.

Product information within this page was obtained from the manufacturers written specifications. Due to ongoing product development, component availability and technology advancements specifications may change without notice. IPS is not responsible for the accuracy of the above specifications.