Staff at Newcastle University's Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology are using a Hidex 300SL bench-top liquid scintillation counter from Lablogic Systems to count 14C isotopes.
The university also plans to use it for work with tritium and 32P in the future.
The 300SL is said to be the first bench-top LSC counter to take advantage of Triple to Double Coincidence Ratio (TDCR) technology, which means that labs do not need a gamma source to calculate counting efficiency when working with pure beta emitters.
It takes 20 and 7ml mini scintillation vials, and can count up to four radioisotopes simultaneously for multiple labelling experiments.
The instrument measures 50 (W) x 60 (D) x 65cm (H).
