TMA Grand Master
The high-performance tissue microarray device
- View several hundred specimens on a single paraffin block
- High throughput thanks to simultaneous loading, drilling and punching
- Intelligent technology for an optimised workflow
- Precise punching of marked points thanks to slide overlay function
The TMA Grand Master has a capacity for 60 donor and 12 recipient blocks, elevating the pathological workflow to a completely new level. It can transfer up to 260 tissue cores per hour. This saves both time and costs, and enables examining several hundred specimens in a single paraffin block. In addition, with the new PCR extraction function, you can obtain tissue samples in a targeted manner for PCR analyses.
The slide overlay function was developed to automate and simplify the workflow as far as possible while simultaneously ensuring optimal TMA quality: The scanned image of a tissue section is stored in the TMA software and overlaid with the corresponding photographed paraffin block containing the embedded tissue. As a result, TMA markings made on the digitised tissue section in the CaseViewer software can be transferred precisely to the paraffin block and define the tissue samples that are to be transferred from this donor block to the recipient block.
Intelligent automation
- Automatic measurement of paraffin block height to ensure that the height of transferred cores corresponds to the height of the recipient block
- Automatic generation and saving of donor block images, including barcodes
- Projects automatically saved in an Excel file
- Automatic sample extraction for PCR analyses
- Automatic barcode-reading function (optional)
| Digitisation | Donor block imaging Use of the MRXS format Barcode recognition (optional) File export: XLS |
| Capacity | Specimen capacity: - 12 recipient blocks Specimen capacity: - 60 donor blocks |
| Cores | 0.6 mm max. 558 cores 1 mm max. 286 cores 1.5 mm max. 135 cores 2 mm max. 84 cores |
| Dimensions (W x D x H) | TMA Grand Master device: approx. 81 cm x 51 cm x 44 cm |
| Weight | Approximately 48 kg |
Sysmex Europe SE
Bornbarch 1
22848 Norderstedt
Germany
+49 (40) 527 26 0
+49 (40) 527 26 100
