can photonic science digital x-ray imagers be interfaced with imaq?

[n.sriram]

for our project we need to interface two photonic science digital x-ray imagers and one digital camera to labview system.we also want to interface daq card and motion control.is it possible?if possible what are the related hardware?

[Scott_R]

Hello,

Yes, you should be able to connect those devices to your system and read their data in MAX.  To set up this system, you would need three IMAQ framegrabbers (one for each image source), a motion controller and a DAQ board.

For the framegrabbers, the greatest difficulty will be in determining how to interface the camera with the IMAQ driver software.  Depending on the type of connection used by the imagers and the camera, different hardware may be required.  With digital image acquisition, the three most common interfaces are parallel digital, CameraLink and IEEE 1394 (firewire).  Depending on which interface you are using, different acquisition hardware will be needed.  For parallel digital, you would need either an NI 1422 or 1424, CameraLink would require an NI 1426, 1428 or PCIe 1429, depending on the configuration of the camera.  For firewire, you can use any off-the-shelf firewire PCI board as long as it has the OHCI chipset and the camera is IIDC 1.3.1 compliant. 

NI Vision Hardware

http://www.ni.com/vision/hardware.htm

For motion control, it will depend on what kind of motor you want to control.  For stepper motors, I would recommend the NI 733x board (the last digit will represent the number of axes that you require).  For a servo motor, I would recommend either the NI 734x or 735x. 

NI Motion Hardware

http://www.ni.com/motion/hardware_selection.htm

For data acquisition, it will be completely dependent upon what types of signals you will be acquiring data from and what kind of sampling rate you will require. 

Data Acquisition Hardware

http://www.ni.com/dataacquisition/#-

Take a look at those resources and let me know if you have any additional questions.

Regards,

Scott R.

Applications Engineer

National Instruments