Abstract: An integral biomolecule preparation device which accomplishes all of the nucleic acid separation steps, including centrifugation, reagent addition, and pipeting, automatically without human intervention to fully automate the DNA separation procedure.

Abstract: A tomography processor system for processing data from a plurality of projections in essentially real time to produce a reconstructed image immediately following completion of a scan. The system includes specialized high-speed processing stages for performing required calculations and operating in concert with a low-cost computer providing overall system control. These processing stages form a multi-stage pipeline processor capable of performing the correction, convolution, interpolation, and back projection functions required to reconstruct the desired final image. The invention makes use of a reconstruction algorithm particularly adapted to implementation in the manner disclosed and claimed.