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Smiths Upgrading Checkpoint X-Ray to Distinguish Innocent from Threat Liquids

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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

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ATLANTA--In its own testing Smiths Detection has demonstrated that its HI-SCAN 6040aTiX X-Ray system can distinguish between innocent liquids and "liquids of interest" as part of its plans to deliver on the promise of explosives detection in the Advanced Technology (AT) X-Ray machine, says Mark Laustra, vice president for Homeland Security at Smiths Detection. So far Smiths has demonstrated that its 6040aTiX system can discriminate between the threat liquids and innocuous ones when bottled liquids are put through the X-Ray…

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