Tecan Pumps Chosen for Accuracy, Speed and Robustness
21 December 2007
Scintomics GmbH in Germany has chosen Tecan's Cavro® syringe pumps as components for its automated synthesizing modules, which produce radiolabeled chemical compounds for targeted molecular imaging in cancer patients. Hans-Jürgen Wester, Professor for Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, and co-founder of Scintomics, explained: "We develop and produce fully automated radiopharmaceutical synthesizers, which are essentially very small chemical plants to prepare radioactive tracers for clinical applications. These chemical compounds need to be synthesized very quickly due to the short half-life of the isotopes used."
"We chose Tecan’s syringe pumps as components for our systems because of their accuracy, the speed they take to transfer liquids, and because Tecan products are well known for their robustness, which is exactly what we need in high quality products for medicinal applications. Another advantage is their high resolution; the next generation of Scintomics' chemical synthesizers will involve the use of microfluidics and, because very small volumes and flow rates are used in our applications, Tecan's pumps will be a major advantage for us."
