The American General Electric Medical Imaging Analyzer was selected as the Olympic stimulant testing equipment

General Electric Medical (GE Healthcare) announced that the company's Imaging Analyzer was selected as the 2012 London Olympics doping test equipment. The "Imagequant LAS 4000", which is developed and manufactured in Japan, is a CCD camera type imager for chemiluminescence, bioluminescence, fluorescence detection, visual inspection and image analysis. will be used to detect stimulants that improve endurance of athletes: EPO (erythropoietin).

EPO is a kind of medicine that can promote the growth of red blood cells and greatly improve the oxygen carrying capacity. Athletes may use them as stimulants to improve their endurance. EPO doping testing was one of the many tests carried out during the games.

GE Healthcare's release information said that the official inspectors involved in doping testing "usually analyze about 7,000 samples within 1 years, while the Olympic Games will require analysis of 5,000 samples in only 17 days, and about 1250 samples during the Paralympic period." Thanks to the advances in digital image technology over the past 10 years, it has been possible to obtain high sensitivity high-definition images in shorter exposure times.