A true singles list-mode data acquisition system for a small animal PET scanner with independent crystal readout.

We present a unique data acquisition system designed to read out signals from the MADPET-II small animal LSO-APD PET tomograph. The scanner consists of 36 independent detector modules arranged in a dual-radial layer ring (phi 71 mm). Each module contains a 4 x 8 array of optically isolated, 2 x 2 mm LSO crystals, coupled one-to-one to a 32 channel APD.

Protocol based non-clinical biomedical laboratory data-collection.

In this paper we describe the design details of a system for protocol based non-clinical biomedical data-collection and reporting. This system permits the biomedical scientist to define one or more data-collection and analysis protocols dynamically into the system and then to cause these protocols to be executed on detached, mobile microprocessor-based work-stations. The system permits both keyboard and attached instrument data-collection as well as random animal assignment and study status reporting.