Halo X-Ray Scanner Identifies an Object's Components

Halo X-Ray Scanner Identifies an Object's Components
Sep-24-15
Researchers are developing an airport scanner able to produce an image as well as identify the components of the material in question.

In development by teams from Nottingham Trent and Cranfield Universities, the Halo scanner identifies the makeup of an object by analyzing the way the object scatters x-rays. While this process is already in use in many laboratories, the new technology eschews the conventional narrow, low-power beam in favor of a high-powered hollow beam shaped like a cone. This new shape causes the object to focus the x-rays into a pattern on the inside of the hollow beam, where they are detected by different sensors inside the beam.

The teams have created the spin-off company Halo X-ray Technologies to bring the scanner to market.

Halo X-Ray Scanner Identifies an Object's Components


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