Manchester Airport buys new hi-tech scanner
14.05.09
Manchester Airport has become the first in the UK to buy a scanning system normally used in cancer hospitals in order to detect explosives in luggage, Crain’s reports. It has ordered a Rapiscan RTT high-speed baggage screening system, which uses computed tomography, or CT, scans of the type used in medicine to estimate the size of tumours and to plan treatment.
Previously airports have used x-rays to scan baggage because CT scans, although more effective, took too long. However, the new RTT machine from Rapiscan Systems, whose name stands for real time tomography, delivers 3-D images but works just as quickly as an x-ray. The machine can also detect viscosity levels in liquids, thus alerting the operator to fluids which may be concealed explosives.
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