Profile: Protean Instrument Corp. specializes in ultrahigh performance systems. Our product line includes automatic low background, multi-detector manual system, high speed automatic swipe counter and MPC-9300-PC manual, automatic windowless systems. Our multi-detector manual system is a third generation multi-detector low background system for gross alpha/beta counting. The MDS is the very best system available for applications requiring high sample throughput and high sensitivity. Our MPC-2000 is Protean Instrument Corporation's smallest and most versatile addition to an extensive line of gross alpha beta counting systems. The MPC-2000 uses critical portions of PIC's electronic and mechanical designs used in other systems.