PCI data acquisition card for application in radiation imaging systems

Author

Popov, Vladimir ; Welch, Benjamin L.

Author_Institution

Thomas Jefferson Nat. Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

19-25 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

2339

Abstract

An efficient data acquisition system for operation with different types of radiation imaging detectors was developed and tested. This system uses a PCI-416 industrial high-speed analog data acquisition card from DATEL. The card is based on 32-bit PCI bus architecture and operates inside a wide variety of PC compatible computers. The hardware for analog signal interfacing as well as software for error free continuous data collection was developed. A data acquisition system based on the PCI-416 was tested on several projects and different computers running MS Windows NT4.0 OS and MS Windows 2000 OS.

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; position sensitive particle detectors; solid scintillation detectors; system buses; user interfaces; 32-bit PCI bus architecture; MS Windows 2000 OS; MS Windows NT 4.0 OS; PC compatible computers; PCI-416 industrial high-speed analog data acquisition card; analog signal interfacing; data acquisition system; error free continuous data collection; pixelated NaI(Tl) scintillator; radiation imaging detectors; radiation imaging systems; Computer architecture; Data acquisition; Event detection; Hardware; Operating systems; Radiation detectors; Radiation imaging; Sampling methods; System testing; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8257-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1352365

Filename

1352365