RE: CYAN ????

From: Hastings, Richard C (richard.hastings@astrazeneca.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 09:23:14 EST


Brian,

I saw this instrument at the Bowdoin flow course. I was very impressed. The
instrument has a nice tight optical bench and a small footprint for a three
laser machine. The solid state laser version of the instrument looks to be a
little bigger than a laser printer.

We ran cells stained for intracellular markers which we suspected would
minimally fluoresce and obtained excellent results. The instrument has
small, state of the art PMTs from Hamamatsu. The instrument allows you to
collect both compensated and uncompensated data simultaneously, thus freeing
yourself from the dreaded under/over compensated data issue. The instrument
requires no optical alignment which is cool and calculates the dead time
between the laser beams. My only issue with Cytomation is support. Will I
have to wait a month if my instrument goes down?

If you are looking for a 1 or 2 laser instrument check out the Coulter
Cytomics FC500. A really nice, sensitive, modern instrument. We are an all
BD lab. I like BD support but the LSR isn't that great and the Caliburs are
dinosaurs compared to the new instruments.

Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian [mailto:b.k.shenton@ncl.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 6:12 PM
To: cyto-inbox
Subject: CYAN ????



Dear Flowers,
		We are thinking of buying a new bench top flow cytometer and
have been
advised there is a new machine available from DAKOCytomation. - called a
CYAN. has anyone any experience of its use or any info ?.

Thank you for reading this message.

Regards

Brian Shenton.



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