Dear Natale, I think that the BAS-1800 and BAS-1800 II are discontinued products by now. And be aware that the Fuji products will now be sold under a different brand, GE Healthcare, http://www.fujifilm.com/products/life_science_systems/news/n091001/index.html This just to say that you should make sure that you buy something that you can also get serviced.
Best of luck, Jens Jens Wenzel Andreasen Senior Scientist Solar Energy Programme Risø DTU Technical University of Denmark Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box 49 Building 111, modul 11 4000 Roskilde Direct +45 4677 4702 Mobil +45 2132 6301 j...@risoe.dtu.dk www.risoe.dtu.dk ________________________________ From: Natale Perchiazzi [mailto:nprietv...@yahoo.it] Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 12:57 PM To: lista rietveld Subject: Powder diffraction and Fuji image plate Dear All, we are going to purchase a Fuji image plate system (Fuji BAS-1800) for our X-ray lab. I am planning to use these plates for powder diffraction, to be performed on small (<0.1mm) mineral fragments; the device to be used is still to be assembled. A possible choice could be to use a collimator, a Gandolfi camera basement for the crystal motion, the diffraction effects being then recorded in flat-plane geometry by the Fuji plate. Another choice would be to put the flat plane plate on a 4-circle diffractometer. There are several important details to be considered, and I wonder what to do to optimize the device, provided that we will have a budget of some Keuro to purchase the various components of the device. I will be happy to hear your advices and to give more informations to anyone interested. best regards Natale Perchiazzi