Things You Need To Know About Baggage X-Ray Machine

Posted by Safeagle on November 25th, 2019

X-ray Baggage Scanner is equipment that is installed in airports, railway stations, and other places where huge number of luggage is carried. There are many baggage x-ray machine suppliers available in China, which provide the services of installation and maintenance of these machines. One such supplier is SafeAgle. This supplier provides man types of scanners, which include

• Mailroom
• Hand baggage
• Hold baggage and cargo
• Pallet baggage

Here are the things that a customer needs to check before selecting a scanner

• Size of the tunnel
• View which can be single or dual
• CT Tomography
• 3D imaging
• X-ray penetration

The cargo or the baggage that has to be transported through air transport is screened at two ediffere4nt 90-degree angles. This helps in scanning the baggage of all shapes and sizes.

How does the scanner work?

People need to minster the baggage into the machine and the conveyor belt has the task of carrying each item through the machine. X-rays have the feature to penetrate inside many materials. Dual-energy x-ray systems are used in airport where x-rays are transmitted through a single source. The range of transmission of x-rays is around 140 to the 160-kilovolt peak. People must know that if the kilovolt peak is high, the penetration will be more.

The detector picks the baggage after x-rays have been penetrated to, it. The task of this detector is to block lower energy x-rays using a filter. The high energy x-rays are transmitted upon the second detector. A computer circuit is installed in the machine, which compares the images of two detectors.

There are many materials that have the property of absorbing the x-rays at different levels. This helps the machine to check the items available o the bag. The objects are categorized as organic, inorganic, and metal and are displayed in different colors. The colors of the inorganic and metallic items may differ but in the case of organic items, they are displayed in the shade of orange color. Training is given to the machine operators to check whether any suspicious item is kept like guns, knives, explosive devices, etc. There is a misconception that x-rays may damage the items in the baggage but in reality it is not so.

The metal scanners are safe for the baggage and the operator can easily monitor them to check if there is any suspicious item.