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  2. Full body scanner - Wikipedia

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    Full body scanner in millimeter wave scanners technique at Cologne Bonn Airport Image from an active millimeter wave body scanner. A full-body scanner is a device that detects objects on or inside a person's body for security screening purposes, without physically removing clothes or making physical contact.

  3. Millimeter wave scanner - Wikipedia

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    A millimeter wave scanner at Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany, Europe. A millimeter wave scanner is a whole-body imaging device used for detecting objects concealed underneath a person’s clothing using a form of electromagnetic radiation.

  4. Rapiscan Systems - Wikipedia

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    Rapiscan X-ray backscatter scanner Advanced Technology (AT) X-ray systems for baggage scanning. Rapiscan Systems is an American privately held company that specialises in walk-through metal detectors and X-ray machines for screening airport luggage and cargo. The company is owned by OSI Systems. [1]

  5. Backscatter X-ray - Wikipedia

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    In contrast to millimeter wave scanners, which create a 3D image, backscatter X-ray scanners will typically only create a 2D image. For airport screening, images are taken from both sides of the human body. [6] Backscatter X-ray was first applied in a commercial low-dose personnel scanning system by Dr. Steven W. Smith.

  6. Worst toy ever -- Airport security x-ray machine - AOL

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    However, I have to believe that we can do better than Wizard Industries' pathetic new offering, the Scan-it Operation. I suppose in an era when every kid owns a boxcar's worth of toys, finding new ...

  7. CTX (explosive-detection device) - Wikipedia

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    Recent research has evaluated the use of computer vision based algorithms that operate on the volumetric data used collected as CT-slice images by these and other manufacturers computed tomography (CT) baggage scanner machines for the automatic detection of other threat types (e.g. guns, knives, liquid containers) using 3D object classification.

  8. Puffer machine - Wikipedia

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    An explosives trace-detection portal machine, also known as a trace portal machine and commonly known as a puffer machine, is a security device that seeks to detect explosives and illegal drugs at airports and other sensitive facilities as a part of airport security screening. [1]

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