Glow and Behold
FluorChem CCD imaging of a western blot using a typical chemiluminescent substrate. In May of this year, Alpha Innotech Corp. of San Leandro, Calif., launched ChemiGlow, a luminol-based chemiluminescent substrate kit optimized for use with charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging systems. ChemiGlow represents a new product area for the company known for digital imaging systems such as ChemiImager™, a real time display CCD camera system for chemiluminescence imaging. Greg Milosevich, vice presi
Aug 20, 2000
![]() FluorChem CCD imaging of a western blot using a typical chemiluminescent substrate. |
Greg Milosevich, vice president of sales and marketing at Alpha Innotech, explains the strengths of the company's approach to gel documentation and analysis: "CCD-based digital imaging technology provides a wider dynamic range (0-4 OD) than that attainable with film (0-1.8 OD) as well as automation advantages using advanced image acquisition, enhancement, and analysis software tools." However, Alpha Innotech's customers soon found that the chemiluminescent detection protocols they routinely used for film-based systems simply were not optimal for use with CCD...
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