Purchase of a PhosphorImager System for plant biology research. Final progress report, July 1992--July 1994 [electronic resource].

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1993.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description:: 3 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: University of California, Berkeley
United States. Department of Energy
United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Eight DOE supported plant biologists at the University of California-Berkeley were awarded funds ($163,000) for purchase of a Phosphorlmager System to improve the speed, sensitivity, resolution, and quantitation of radioactive data processing and analysis. These funds were used to purchase a Molecular Dynamics Phosphorlmager System consisting of the phosphorlmager, a densitometer, and high resolution storage phosphor screens that have extremely high trapping and storage capacity for energy emitted from isotopes used for biological research such as ³²P, ¹⁴C, ³⁵S, and ¹²⁵I. Software provided with the package permits analysis of the data in several unique ways that are not currently feasible With other methods for analysis. The University of California has purchased additional computer hardware (A MacIntosh Quadra 800 Computer) and has upgraded an IBM computer Mod6l PS2-486 linked with on-line and on off-line workstations via ethernet systems for analysis of data. Data files can also be converted to a TIFF format suitable for graphic analysis and image production on the MacIntosh computer. The system is providing unique advantages for quantitation of data over extremely wide ranges of isotope levels and provides the ability to analyze and manipulate data over wide ranges of sensitivity not previously available with previously used methods of isotope quantitation.

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Published through SciTech Connect.
10/01/1993.
"doe/er/79131--t1"
"DE94001223"
"KT0500000"
Jackson, A.O.

Type of Report and Period Covered Note:

Annual; 01/01/1992 - 12/31/1993

Funding Information:

FG05-92ER79131

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