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Precise Temperature Measurements
When you must make precise temperature measurements, Physitemp Instruments can provide you with a very accurate temperature monitor and Type T thermocouple microprobes. Physitemp thermometers have a resolution and accuracy of 0.1°C in the 0-50°C range and are traceable to NIST standards. Other competitive electronic thermometers might have 0.1°C resolution, but their accuracy is usually to 0.5°C or worse. Furthermore, all our type T preclinical probes are guaranteed accurate to ±0.1°C, due to our stringent wire standards. These are five times more accurate over this range than competitive probes made with regular "Special Limits" wire.
Because temperature is a fundamental variable which affects all biological and chemical activity, Physitemp's products find applications in a wide array of technical situations. Some of the more common applications are as follows:
- Our tiny flexible Teflon microprobes are used for implantation in tissue, in spectrophotometer cuvettes, rectally in neonatal mice, in water baths, PCR thermal cyclers, etc...
- Our multisensor probes can be used to map tumor temperature profiles during hyperthermia in preclinical animal research
- Animal rectal temperatures during surgical procedures and pyrogen testing
- Skin temperature measurement during exercise physiology studies n preclinical animal research
When temperature control is required either before, during or after animal surgeries, we offer precise and consistent temperature control with our TCAT-2 series Temperature controllers. Our controllers can be coupled with either our infrared Heat Lamp, HL-1, stereotaxic Heat Plates, HP-1M and HP-4M and/or our warming blankets, WM-1 and WM-2.
In addition to our precise temperature monitoring equipment, we offer a complete line of thermoelectric heating and cooling stages for both microscopes and microtomes. Our TS-4MP series, thermal stages fit most microscopes and enable specimen temperature to be maintained and regulated at any temperature between -20° and +100°C to within ±0.1°C. We also make custom stages for special applications. Our BFS-MP freezing stages for microtomes offer an inexpensive solution to frozen tissue sections and fit easily onto most microtomes. Freezing starts immediately and can be maintained indefinitely.
