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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 6th, 2018

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Analogic Planning Airport Demos of ConneCT ScannerAnalogic [ALOG] says it will be demonstrating its ConneCT computed tomography-based checkpoint scanner at four airports in four different regions of the world by this July. The company says a demonstration is already underway in Japan and another will begin in Western Europe in March. Airports in Asia and the Asia-Pacific region will also be hosting demonstrations of the scanner, which has automated threat detection capabilities and a touchscreen interface. In the U.S., the…

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