Windows-based acquisition and image reconstruction for a multi-element imaging system

Author

Petrick, Nicholas ; Caird, Andrew J. ; Martin, Jeffrey B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Nucl. Eng., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

41

Issue

4

fYear

1994

fDate

8/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1225

Lastpage

1228

Abstract

A system has been developed for acquiring data from a multi-element gamma ray imaging device. Data is acquired and stored in a flexible list mode format, which allows all necessary analyses and hardware diagnostics to be performed in one application. This system is currently used with a Compton scatter camera for detector calibration, data collection, count rate display for individual elements, histogram display, and image reconstruction and display. The software is implemented on a personal computer with a 33 MHz 80486 processor and 8 Mb of RAM under Microsoft Windows Version 3.1. The maximum acquisition rate of the system is 8000 counts per second. The system allows other applications to operate while it is acquiring data and has been written to easily accommodate additional analysis tools and different imaging systems

Keywords

data acquisition; data analysis; gamma-ray detection and measurement; graphical user interfaces; image reconstruction; spectroscopy computing; 33 MHz; 8 Mbit; Compton scatter camera; Microsoft Windows 3.1; data acquisition; image reconstruction; maximum acquisition rate; multi-element gamma ray imaging; Application software; Calibration; Cameras; Computer displays; Detectors; Hardware; Image reconstruction; Nuclear imaging; Performance analysis; Scattering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.322889

Filename

322889