A LabVIEW driver for X-ray flat-panel detector

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bi, Kun | Liu, Qian | Lv, Xiaohua | Luo, Qingming | Zeng, Shaoqun

Affiliations: The Key Laboratory for Biomedical Photonics of the Ministry of Education, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China

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Abstract: This article introduces a driver design of the X-ray flat panel detector which is based on the LabVIEW. The functions in the flat panel detector c code software development kit are classified firstly. And then these classifications are encapsulated into VI modules with some intelligent processing, which described detailedly in this article. Exemplified by the digital ray imaging system, the installation of the system, the implementation of the various functional modules, the procedures to develop the framework of entire application software and the improvement of the error messages are described in this article. The high performance demonstrated by the imaging results indicates that the controlling and collecting system based on virtual instrument is able to satisfy the requirements of scientific research and the development of prototype machine and software.

Journal: Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 261-268, 2008