Laboratory Microwave Ovens Overview


Employing microwave technology in your laboratory, especially in Histology labs, is a simple process and will improve your operation on multiple levels. Whether you become an all- microwave lab or add microwave processing for stats, overflow, special stains and/or myriad other applications, you will find this line of laboratory microwaves to be the most efficient and versatile tool in your lab.


Benefits


• Fix, Process, Stain, and Decalcify tissue, in a fraction of the time of any other method or Microwave Processor


• Provide greater throughput than any other Microwave processor on the market for samples up to 3mm


• Reduce reagent use


• Eliminate the need for Xylene in your processing


• Allow a 50% reduction in your use of Xylene and Alcohol for H&E staining


• Open the door to using many safe and environmentally friendly alternative fixatives and clearing agents


• Provide an opportunity to drastically improve the quality of your fatty tissue processing


• Will not reduce slide quality


• Will not damage or degrade specimen antigenicity


• Does not adversely impact IHC or molecular downstream testing


• Speeds up laboratory workflow Time and Cost Savings


Automation does not necessarily equal speed. Microwaves process tissue far more efficiently and cost-effectively than any other Tissue Processor. These are the fastest Processors on the market.


• Reagent used is directly proportional to the volume of samples being processed


• Xylene Free: use only Alcohols and Paraffin to process tissue with no Xylene clearing steps required


• Process 74 biopsies in < 20 minutes. No other Tissue Processor even comes close.


• Patented Polar Heat Sheets allow ultra-fast Microwave paraffin infiltration


Tissue Processing Times Process Small Biopsies Process 1–3mm Sections


Applications


Microwave Processors perform the following critical lab functions, all in a fraction of the time required by conventional methods.


• Fixation


• Dehydration • Infiltration • Special Stains


• Immunohistochemistry • Slide Drying • Antigen Retrieval • Decalcifications


Protocols


Microwave Processors perform the following critical lab functions, all in a fraction of the time required by conventional methods.


Fontana Masson Staining Timeline Microwave Staining Solution


16–35 minutes 1 hour


Process Thick, Fatty Sections 2–3 hours Special Stains Decalcifications


1–20 minutes hours


Nuclear Fast Red Silver Nitrate


Power Time High High


let stand in hot sol for 10 min


Masson Trichrome Staining Timeline Microwave Staining Solution Bouins


Power Time High


Microwave Model


Comparison Model


Interior Dim. (W x H x D) Exterior Dim. (W x H x D)


Power Level Control Stored Protocols


Active Ventilation System Power Balance System CAP/OSHA Compliant User Safety Interlocks Sample Safety Interlocks Variable Reagent Agitation Fine Temperature Control Multi-Step Protocols


Integral Vacuum Function Multiple Operating Modes Ultra-Rapid Processing Made in the USA


General Lab Microwave


14.5 x 9.25 x 14.5" 36.8 x 23.6 x 36.8cm


22 x 13.5 x 24"


55.8 x 34.3 x 60.9cm 5 Settings 20 X X X X


Staining/General Lab Microwave


14.5 x 9.25 x 14.5" 36.8 x 23.6 x 36.8cm


22 x 13.5 x 24"


55.9 x 34.3 x 60.9cm Dial-in 20 X X X X


X


EMS-9000 Precision Pulsed Microwave


14.1 x 8.75 x 16.1" 35.8 x 22.2 x 40.9cm


21.7" x 20.5" x 25" 55.2 x 52.1 x 63.5cm


X X


Programmable 40 X X X X X X X X X X X X


let stand in hot sol for 10 min Biebrich Scarlet-


High


Acid Fuchsin PMA/PTA


High


let stand in hot sol for 2 min Aniline Blue


High let stand in hot sol for 1 min 15 sec, 20 sec 20 sec, 20 sec,


30 sec 45 sec,


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