PCI data acquisition card for application in radiation imaging systems

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.