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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2015
Southern Innovation International Pty Ltd, Carlton North, Victoria, AU;
Paul Scoullar, Fitzroy North, AU;
Christopher McLean, Kangaroo Flat, AU;
Shane Tonissen, Kensington, AU;
Syed Khusro Saleem, Fitzroy North, AU;
Brendan Allman, Brunswick East, AU;
Southern Innovation International Pty Ltd, Carlton North, Victoria, AU;
Abstract
The invention provides a device () for screening one or more items () of freight or baggage for one or more types of target material, the device comprising: a source () of incident radiation () configured to irradiate the one or more items (); a plurality of detectors () adapted to detect packets of radiation () emanating from within or passing through the one or more items () as a result of the irradiation by the incident radiation (), each detector being configured to produce an electrical pulse () caused by the detected packets having a characteristic size or shape dependent on an energy of the packets; one or more digital processors () configured to process each electrical pulse to determine the characteristic size or shape and to thereby generate a detector energy spectrum for each detector of the energies of the packets detected, and characterize a material associated with the one or more items based on the energy spectrum.