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14 June 2023 Performance of a high-throughput full-tunnel XRD checked baggage scanning system
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Abstract
X-ray diffraction imaging (XRDI) offers the potential for reduced false alarm rates, increased throughputs, and more sensitive explosives detection performance in aviation security applications. The deployment of computed tomography (CT) systems across carry-on and checked baggage screening lanes has both reinforced the need for orthogonal detection technologies and created an exciting new opportunity for the implementation of XRDI. Our team at Quadridox built a novel XRDI system that, when combined with a CT system, realizes full-tunnel assessment of checked bags at a belt speed of 20 cm/s. We integrated our XRDI system with a Smiths CTX 5800 explosives detection system (EDS) and collected bag data containing both benign and threat objects. We describe the XRDI system, show examples of the resulting hybrid CT and XRD dataset, and present performance results for the hybrid system.
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David Coccarelli, Colt Dudley, Daniel Pike, Robert Greenberg, Ryan Moody, Edward Franco, Turner Richmond, Anuj J. Kapadia, Michael E. Gehm, and Joel A. Greenberg "Performance of a high-throughput full-tunnel XRD checked baggage scanning system", Proc. SPIE 12531, Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays (ADIX) VIII, 1253103 (14 June 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2664253
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KEYWORDS
X-ray diffraction

X-ray computed tomography

X-rays

Imaging systems

Explosives

Explosives detection

Information security

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