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LONDON, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A whole range of helium free, pre clinical MRI scanners has been announced by UK-based MR Solutions following the successful launch of the world's first commercial helium free machine late last year. The new range of three scanners, with bore sizes 16cm, 31cm and 72cm, will be able to scan from small to medium sized animals. These scanners have four distinct advantages over competitor machines. Firstly and most importantly...
OTTAWA, April 16, 2013 /CNW/ - The Honourable Steven Fletcher, Minister of State (Transport), announced today that the Harper Government is deploying software on Canada's full body scanners (FBS) that will enhance passenger privacy at airports, while continuing to ensure the safety and security of Canadian air travellers. The Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) software for full body scanners is being updated at major Canadian airports. This new software produces computer...
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online While those full body scanners that the TSA now employs in many airports may be considered “too revealing” to some travelers forced to walk through them, the same imaging technology is now being used to look under a painting on a wall to see if another work of art may be underneath. Scientists working at the Louvre Museum in Paris have used the imaging technology to reveal images beneath a famous, but known forged fresco. The...
In the latest achievement in efforts to see what may lie underneath the surface of great works of art, scientists today described the first use of an imaging technology like that used in airport whole-body security scanners to detect the face of an ancient Roman man hidden below the surface of a wall painting in the Louvre Museum in Paris. They described unveiling the image, which scientists and art historians say may be thousands of years old, during the 245th National Meeting &...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Full-body image scanners that drew the ire of privacy advocates who likened passing through them to undergoing a strip search are being removed from US airports, officials from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have reportedly confirmed. According to Jeff Plungis of Bloomberg News, the decision to end the $5 million contract between TSA and OSI Systems, developers of the Rapiscan units, came after the company...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Readily available smartphone apps that scan airline boarding passes can alert passengers to whether or not they have been selected for additional screening by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), security experts warn. The barcodes contain information that reveals which security protocols a traveler will be subject to, the researchers said. The vulnerability involves the TSA’s pre-screening system known as...
DALLAS, October 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market research report, "Global Commercial Airport Full Body Scanners Market (2012 - 2017)", authored by Jerryd Peter, Commercial Aviation Analyst, published by MarketsandMarkets (http://www.marketsandmarkets.com), the total full body scanners market is expected to reach $1.37 Billion by 2017 with a CAGR of 41.58%. Browse 111 market data tables with 109 figures spread through 223 pages and in-depth TOC on...
