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New
anthrax scanning machine from ECIL
PTI
- Hyderabad
At last, here is some respite from anthrax phobia. The Electronic
Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) recently claimed to have developed
a new scanning machine that would be able to detect any powdery
substance, including anthrax spores.
Similar to the luggage scanning machines in airports but much smaller
in size, the Conveyorised Parcel Viewer (ECR 419) is capable of
detecting all powdery substances in either envelopes, bags or suitcases,
company sources said.
Any envelope can be put through this machine and the colour images
on a display screen would indicate the presence of powdery substance,
if any, inside the envelope. Postal authorities can send all mails
through this machine and isolate the envelopes containing powders
which could be sent for analysis.
ECIL is planning to produce this machine on a large scale to meet
the immediate security requirements of the country as well as planning
to export these machines to US and other countries, the company
sources said.
The images are first displayed in black and white. But the operator
can add pseudo colours to ‘visually sniff’ for additional
details. The machine has another feature like edge enhancement to
help improve the definition of the object under screening.
The equipment is compact, light weigh, stand alone X-ray inspection
system. The X-ray dose per inspection in the system is kept low
by using 80KV compact X-ray generator
designed indigenously, according
to ECIL.
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