Patent ID: 7116812

Claim:
An image data acquisition system, comprising: a detector framing node (DFN) being programmable to receive image data from a panel detector, and to store the image data in at least one buffer for later transfer of the image data by way of a direct memory access (DMA) transfer; a control unit configured to determine when the at least one buffer is full with the received image data and to output a DMA instruction as a result, the DMA instruction corresponding to a dummy DMA instruction that disables a start of a DMA transfer corresponding to execution of the DMA instruction; and an auxiliary image interface being programmable to detect the dummy DMA instruction, to issue a DMA request to the DFN in accordance with information obtained from the dummy DMA instruction, and to convert data received from the at least one buffer of the DFN into a different format, to output to a host unit that is capable of processing the data received in the different format.