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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2013
Applicant:
Smiths Heimann Gmbh, Wiesbaden, DE;
Inventor:
Georg Geus, Wiesbaden, DE;
Assignee:
Smiths Heimann GmbH, Wiesbaden, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 23/04 (2006.01); G01V 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 23/04 (2013.01); G01V 5/0016 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device includes a radiation tunnel in which an X-ray source and a detector unit are disposed, the detectors of which are aligned with the X-ray source so as to detect transmitted radiation for detecting suspicious objects. Disposed in the radiation tunnel is a frame which can be moved over an examination region and has two supports which extend at a spacing parallel to each other and are rigidly connected to each other, the radiation source being secured on one vertical support and the detector unit being secured on the other vertical support.