Specifications of Next-Generation, Low Cost Railcar and Shipping Container X-Ray Scanner
This article shows you specifications of the Railcar and Shipping Container X-Ray Scanner from Hytec Inc.
Desired Housing: Purpose-built shielded building, an outdoor (secured area), or a railroad track area (secured)
Purpose: Scan large containers (20, 40, up to 53 feet in length), railcars, shipping pallets, and vehicles
Fielding: Must be self-transporting, easy to set up and easy to operate
Price: Must cost less than $3M in quantities of one.
Technical Requirements (General)
- Easily driven on any road at 55 MPH. 100%, 50 state, road legal. No special transport permits required.
- May consist of one or more trailers and tractors
- Little or no site preparation required
- Operated by crew of one or two persons (not more than two)
- Length of system: 107 feet (32.6 m) maximum
- Capable of bi-directional scanning of objects up to 87 feet (26.5 m) in length
- X-ray generation equipment and beam forming devices are mounted to allow hands-off
- peration
- Beam detectors, imaging electronics, and processing equipment must allow hands-off operation (detectors may be standard x-ray transmission detectors or next generation detectors)
- Detectors at the least must detect explosives, human stowaways, and shielded materials
- Desired for detectors to be proven to detect special nuclear materials and chemical/biological weapons
Technical Requirements (System)
- Linear accelerator Dual energy 4 and 9 MV
- Ultra Low Leakage
- Opti-temp TCU
- Detector Array 2000 x 2 mm cadmium tungstate (CdWO4)
- Linear array photodiodes
- Image Processor AXI 16-bit or equal
Features: real-time viewing of image as it is acquired
- pan
- zoom
- edge enhancement
- reverse video
- pseudo color
- contrast enhancement
- user marking of areas of interest
- user annotations
- Two display monitors for same image comparison
- Management database
- Hard disk storage for 1000+ full scan images
- Color laser printer
- Document scanner
- Rewritable CD device
- Wireless internet access
- Scan speed 100 feet (30.5 m) per minute
- Drive system(s) for accelerator and detector array fully synchronized
- Detector array transports flat (raised to the vertical scan position for operation)
Additional Requirements
Installation and Training (2 day operations training; one day maintenance).
System installation and calibration.
Additional Viewing and Storage systems
- 10 processor reconstruction cluster
- 5 Dual Pentium Xeon 2.8 GHz blade servers
- 2 GB RAM per blade server
- 300 GB, RAID 5 data storage array
- 19" EIA computer rack with LCD monitor, keyboard and trackball
- Data processing software
- Cluster management software
- Data Visualization software
- Hushed, 50 KVA Diesel generator mountable within system; extra 50 gal. fuel tank
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