BRUKER AXS ANNOUNCES AXIOM, A REVOLUTIONARY ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE X-RAY DETECTOR

Bruker AXS Inc., a leading global provider of advanced X-ray solutions for life sciences, announced today at the 2005 International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) meeting in Florence, Italy, the introduction of a novel completely digital imaging detector for macromolecular X-ray crystallography, the AXIOM 200. This innovative detector is based on Bruker AXS' proprietary 'R&D 100'-award-winning microgap detector technology. Unlike older and inherently noisier analog detectors like image plates, which are unable to detect low-level X-ray signals, the AXIOM has essentially zero detector noise, and is able to record each individual X-ray photon as it strikes the detector, thus offering the highest sensitivity available today.

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