Automated Tissue Microarrayer

Automatic Tissue Microarrayer

The Automated Tissue Microarrayer is an instrument which can pick up the sample tissue from the donor blocks and insert the sample into the correspondent hole of the premade recipient block automatically.

The computer aided Quick Ray Master(UATM-272A) is the integrated tissue microarrayer running by Windows XP and operating by the touch screen with LCD monitor, and is also connected to the external monitors, USB keyboard and USB mouse. Also, the quick help function key is available for various tips including instructions on saving image files and reporting the information of recipient blocks through an external USB memory and an external PC with LAN interface.

Quick Ray Master helps the researchers to decrease the time and labor in creating the blocks by using the pre-made recipient blocks to be supplied by Unitma. A function of the rotary typed tip module consisting of 3 tips sized 1mm,2mm and 3mm offer the automatic change of the desired tip by using the software as the researchers' option.

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How to build

TMA by the Automated Tissue Microarrayer (Quick Ray Master)

	1. Place the reference slide and the donor block on the microscope stage, and mark the position where you intend to extract the sample tissue with an oil pen.
	2. Place donor blocks and recipient blocks on the block holders in the instrument
	3. Quick Ray Master extracts the marked tissue from the donor block and delivers the extracted tissue into the correspondent holes of the pre-made recipient block (UB06)
	4. Put the completed recipient block into the base mold with the face to be sectioned down and place it in an oven at 70 degree celsius for 30 to 60 minutes until the block is completely transparent, then take it out from the oven.
	5. Place an embedding cassette on the top of transparent block and dispense liquid paraffin into the base mold adequately covering the cassette.
	6. Solidify the block in a cold plate.
	7. Sectioning by a microtome.
	8. Follow the next workflow