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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2015
Applicant:
L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Inventors:
Ronald Steven McNabb, Jr., Charlestown, MA (US);
Nicholas Danvers Penrose Gillett, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 23/20 (2006.01); G01T 7/00 (2006.01); G01V 5/00 (2006.01); G01N 23/04 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 7/005 (2013.01); G01N 23/04 (2013.01); G01N 23/20083 (2013.01); G01V 5/0016 (2013.01); A61B 6/483 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging system exposes an object within a region to a beam of penetrating radiation. The beam of penetrating radiation is sensed on a side opposite the region from a source of the beam. An attenuation of the beam caused by passing the beam through the object is determined, the attenuation is compared to a threshold attenuation. If the attenuation exceeds the threshold attenuation, a parameter of the imaging system is adjusted based on the determined attenuation.