August 10, 2006

Backscatter

American Science and Engineering (tag line: When you can't afford to compromise) makes a series of X-Ray and Nuclear Backscatter imaging devices that are tunable to organic materials instead of just responding to the materials density and radiological absorption. They have a "brag page" showing what their equipment can do and it is downright impressive (and this is the stuff they put online for the general public!). Here is a truck full of bananas with a few tarantulas hidden away:
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Posted by DaveH at August 10, 2006 10:13 PM