Abstract: A non-intrusive inspection system, including apparatuses and methods, for non-intrusively inspecting containers such as, without limitation, those employed to transport items in international commerce. The non-intrusive inspection system is configured to generate and scan a container with multiple bremsstrahlung, or x-ray, beams having multiple spectra and directed at the container in multiple directions and planes separated by one or more angle(s). Using data collected from such scanning, software of the non-intrusive inspection system generates three-dimensional images of the items present in a container, calculates the volumes and densities of such items, computes effective “Z” numbers, and distinguishes between multiple materials, or elements, of such items.

Abstract: A cryptographic container security system for enabling the secure transportation of a container from a sender site to a receiver site. The system includes, in the exemplary embodiment, apparatuses and methods for generating pre-transportation and post-transportation fingerprints of a container being transported, for encrypting and decrypting the pre-transportation fingerprint, and for comparing pre-transportation and post-transportation fingerprints, and for comparing the decrypted pre-transportation fingerprint and the pre-transportation fingerprint. The pre-transportation and post-transportation fingerprints are generated from fingerprint data, including, without limitation, the aggregate gamma flux and aggregate effective Z-number determined for the container by multi-energy scanning systems located, respectively, at sender and receiver sites.

Abstract: A non-intrusive inspection system, including apparatuses and methods, for non-intrusively inspecting containers such as, without limitation, those employed to transport items in international commerce. The non-intrusive inspection system is configured to generate and scan a container with multiple bremsstrahlung, or x-ray, beams having multiple spectra and directed at the container in multiple directions and planes separated by one or more angle(s). Using data collected from such scanning, software of the non-intrusive inspection system generates three-dimensional images of the items present in a container, calculates the volumes and densities of such items, computes effective “Z” numbers, and distinguishes between multiple materials, or elements, of such items.

Abstract: A cryptographic container security system for enabling the secure transportation of a container from a sender site to a receiver site. The system includes, in the exemplary embodiment, apparatuses and methods for generating pre-transportation and post-transportation fingerprints of a container being transported, for encrypting and decrypting the pre-transportation fingerprint, and for comparing pre-transportation and post-transportation fingerprints, and for comparing the decrypted pre-transportation fingerprint and the pre-transportation fingerprint. The pre-transportation and post-transportation fingerprints are generated from fingerprint data, including, without limitation, the aggregate gamma flux and aggregate effective Z-number determined for the container by multi-energy scanning systems located, respectively, at sender and receiver sites.

Abstract: Non-intrusive inspection systems, including apparatuses and methods, for non-intrusively inspecting cargo containers employed, generally, in the cargo transportation industry. The non intrusive inspection systems utilize one or more, single or multi-energy electron accelerators arranged in a plurality of different arrangements and orientations to provide two and, essentially, three dimensional views of the contents of (i.e., objects within) a cargo container and to enable discrimination and identification of materials present within the contents thereof.

Abstract: A non-intrusive container inspection system, including apparatuses and methods, for non-intrusively scanning and inspecting containers employed to transport items therewithin that utilizes forward-scattered bremsstrahlung, or x-rays, for generating multi-plane images of items present within the containers and for distinguishing between multiple materials present in such items. The system is adapted to direct a pulsed bremsstrahlung, or x-ray, beam having multiple spectra in a substantially single direction at a container being scanned and to produce data that corresponds to portions of the beam that either pass through items within the container without being scattered or that are forward-scattered by items within the container. The system employs a detector array having sections specially configured and oriented to receive and produce data corresponding to the non-scattered and forward-scattered portions of the beam.

Abstract: A non-intrusive inspection system, including apparatuses and methods, for non-intrusively inspecting containers such as, without limitation, those employed to transport items in international commerce. The non-intrusive inspection system is configured to generate and scan a container with multiple bremsstrahlung, or x-ray, beams having multiple spectra and directed at the container in multiple directions and planes separated by one or more angle(s). Using data collected from such scanning, software of the non-intrusive inspection system generates three-dimensional images of the items present in a container, calculates the volumes and densities of such items, computes effective “Z” numbers, and distinguishes between multiple materials, or elements, of such items.

Abstract: Non-intrusive inspection systems, including apparatuses and methods, for non-intrusively inspecting cargo containers employed, generally, in the cargo transportation industry. The non intrusive inspection systems utilize one or more, single or multi-energy electron accelerators arranged in a plurality of different arrangements and orientations to provide two and, essentially, three dimensional views of the contents of (i.e., objects within) a cargo container and to enable discrimination and identification of materials present within the contents thereof.