Abstract: A system for interfacing with an operator in a blood component collection facility is disclosed. The operator administers one or more procedures in the blood component collection facility. The blood component collection facility removes at least one blood component from a donor and comprises a blood component collection instrument capable of being adapted to the donor. The operator facilitates interaction of the donor with the blood component collection facility.

Abstract: A system for managing one or more procedures in a blood collection facility is disclosed. The system includes a blood collection instrument for collecting a blood component from a blood donor. The blood donor has a blood donor identifier, and the blood collection instrument has a blood collection instrument identifier. The system further includes a blood collection kit having a blood collection kit identifier. The blood collection kit is operably connected to the blood donor and the blood collection instrument. A system server is also included. The system server is operably responsive to the blood collection instrument and comprises a program having a plurality of segments defining a blood collection process. The program is capable of monitoring a status of the blood collection kit. The system further comprises an operator interface which is operably connected to the system server.

Abstract: A method using a progressive sampling rate technique to maintain the sampling rate at the Nyquist frequency of the I/Q data through a tunable equalization bandpass filter in the front end of the imager and then increasing the sampling rate via axial interpolation to prevent aliasing during the nonlinear detection process. If an envelope detector is used, the bandwidth of the detector output should be approximately double that of the I/Q data. In this case, the sampling rate is doubled (or more) by axial interpolation before envelope detection. A 2-point linear interpolator can be used. Depending on the application, this axial interpolator can be turned on or off automatically by the system. After detection, the signal can be low-pass filtered to restrict the speckle bandwidth prior to log compression.