Wednesday, August 23, 2006

PC-based software works with X-rays to find explosives / Electronic Engineering Times,

http://digbig.com/4mnde
"Guardian Technologies International Inc. announced that it has devised PC-based software that can be used in tandem with conventional X-ray detectors in the field, acting as "a second set of eyes" to identify liquid-based compounds for explosives in scanned baggage. "Usually the threats [anti-terrorism officials] are trying to discover are guns, knives and things like plastic explosives, but there is suddenly a high priority on identifying liquid-based compounds for explosives, which we can do.". Lancaster claimed that Guardian Technologies' PinPoint software can detect liquid explosives in scanned baggage, regardless of metal shielding or the containers' orientation in the bag."