Internals and evaluation of the miniPET-II detector module

Author

Imrek, Jozsef ; Hegyesi, Gyula ; Kalinka, G. ; Molnar, Jozsef ; Novak, D. ; Balkay, L. ; Emri, M. ; Opposits, G. ; Kis, Sandor A. ; Tron, L. ; Bukki, Tamas ; Szabo, Zsolt ; Kerek, A.

Author_Institution

Valastyan Inst. of Nucl. Res. of the Hungarian Acad. of Sci., Debrecen

Volume

4

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 26 2007-Nov. 3 2007

Firstpage

2930

Lastpage

2932

Abstract

We report on the architecture of the system-on- module (SoM) developed by our group for miniPET-II, the second version of our small animal PET scanner. The paper describes the hardware and software implementation details of the SoM we realized inside the miniPET-II detector module, the embedded Linux operation system, and the the initial results of bandwidth test measurements on the assembled SoM. Detailed description is given on the interfacing of the updated miniPET IP Core to the SoM, on the efficient data transfer method that implements device-to-device DMA transfer, and on the usage of User Datagram Protocol (UDP/IP) for high speed data transfer.

Keywords

Linux; data acquisition; medical diagnostic computing; positron emission tomography; transport protocols; Linux operation system; bandwidth test measurements; data transfer; device-to-device DMA transfer; miniPET IP Core; miniPET-II Detector; small animal PET scanner; system-on-module; user datagram protocol; Animals; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Detectors; Embedded software; Hardware; Linux; Positron emission tomography; Software testing; System testing; Ethernet; FPGA; UDP/IP; data acquisition; embedded Linux; small animal PET;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. NSS '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0922-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436747

Filename

4436747