Department of Pathology HIMSR & HAHC Hospital is in process of procurement of a Cryostat. The interested manufacture/suppliers are requested to submit in separate seal covers the technical bid, price quotations Satisfactory Working Report from Institutes supplied by them to HOD Pathology/ Purchase section.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR CRYOSTAT
- Open-top Cryostat
- The unit can be moved by means of steering castors with locking screws.
- UV C light surface disinfection.
- Large cooling chamber with plain surfaces and draining system, easy to clean and disinfect.
- Cryo-chamber temperature variable from +5ºC down to -35 ºC.
- Sufficient storage space inside the cooling chamber with removable section waste trays and brush shelf.
- Electronic control via touch pad keyboard for rapid selection and adjustment of functions, including 10 to 12 minutes specimen fast freeze function.
- Programmable “Memory function” for fast and automatic retrieval of a pre-stored start position of sectioning.
- Automatic 24-h-defroster with interrupt key.
- Freezing bar with stations down to -35 ºC for storage of specimen chucks.
- Integrated peltier for rapid freezing down to -55ºC to limit ice crystal formation within the specimen.
- Heated sliding window.
- Florescent lamp illumination of cryo-chamber with separate on/off switch.
- Rotary microtome with reliable stepper motor technology for reproducible thickness.
- Section thickness setting from 1 to 500µm split into fine section thickness and trimming thickness range.
- Fine section range from 1 to 20µm
- Trim section range from 10 to 50 µm
- Motorised coarse and fine feed via stepping motor.
- LED display of section counter, sum of section thicknesses and remaining travel to front end position.
