Radioscopic Inspection of Cargo Containers with Megavoltage Energy Barriers
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
10-2009
Publication Title
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009
Publisher
IEEE
First page number:
3510
Last page number:
3515
Abstract
To perform the inspection of cargo containers the radioscopic screening is performed by switching between 6 and 9 MeV of boundary energies as rapidly as 200 times per second and measuring the penetration levels in the contents of cargo. This technology facilitates the material identification via the analyses of the ratios of signals obtained at nominal and dual energies, which are 6 and 9 MeV, respectively. The techniques are developed for (a) visualizing the contents to produce an image suitable for fast inspection by a human operator, and for (b) prompting the custom personnel about the location of suspicious objects. Specifically, nuclear materials are of interest. The experiments have been conducted with Linatron K9 device designed by Varian Security and Inspection Products. The capabilities are demonstrated for detection of objects of interests for the steel shields of 10 inches of thickness.
Keywords
Freight containers; Image processing; Materials handling; X-ray imaging
Disciplines
Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering | Signal Processing | Systems and Communications
Language
English
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Repository Citation
Mandava, A. K.,
Zhang, L.,
Regentova, E.,
Wilson, Z.,
Chen, G.
(2009).
Radioscopic Inspection of Cargo Containers with Megavoltage Energy Barriers.
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009
3510-3515.
IEEE.