Patent ID: 7781741

Claim:
A data acquisition system for an imaging system including a detector having a plurality of detector elements, said data acquisition system comprising: a plurality of terminations, at least one of said terminations configured to be coupled to a signal lead of a respective one of the detector elements; a first A/D board comprising at least one lead and a plurality of tileable Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chips; a second A/D board comprising at least one lead and a plurality of tileable ASIC chips; a single connector slot configured to receive said at least one lead of said first A/D board and said at least one lead of said second A/D board such that said first A/D board and said second A/D board are seated against one another in a back-to-back configuration; and wherein the detector elements include a plurality of adjacent detector elements, each adjacent detector element configured to be coupled to a different one of said ASIC chips.