Sabre: A System for the Assessment of Body Radioactivity. Part 1. A Description of the Initial System

摘要

This report describes a PDP-11/10 computer system and associated software for the acquisition and assessment of pulse height spectra from a series of devices used for the measurement of body radioactivity. A real-time program allows simultaneous collection of data from up to four independently controlled detection systems. A single console (a visual display unit) is used for operator interaction and analogue display. The operator can control data accumulation and select a wide range of manipulative, display, transmission and storage features by means of a command language. The existing program can be easily extended since segments peforming individual functions are held on secondary storage and brought into main memory when required. Both assembler languages for the PDP-11 and FORTRAN are used for the implementation. The system provides uniquely powerful features for the acquisition and treatment of radiation spectra from body measurements and employs novel forms of user interaction. (Atomindex citation 08:325645)