The active millimeter-wave technology rapidly scans people and sends reflected signals into a high-speed image processing computer which produces a high-resolution 3-D image.
The scanning technology is rapid, produce an image in less than three seconds. It can be used in a variety of public areas, such as airports, court houses, federal buildings, prisons, embassies, schools, sporting events, mass transit systems and nuclear sites to minimize delays and the indignity of physical searches that are often necessary to resolve ambiguous alarms.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researcher David M. Sheen will be presenting his results 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 30 at the 230th national meeting of the American Chemical Society.