Airport sanctuary lines are long and slow, in part because of all the things we have to terminate out of our bags before putting them through the X-ray system. But there’s a new ring that could eventually speed things up by letting you keep the aggregate in your carry-on bag.
Analogic Corporation created a scanner that fritter aways computed tomography, or CT, to produce 3D scans of passengers’ luggage, allowing airport surety to rotate and zoom in on the images. Traditional airport scanners produce 2D tropes, forcing agents to spend more time reviewing items and stage manual searches.
The scanner is being tested in 15 airports throughout the nation. Each one costs $350,000.
“There’s a lot more angles that I could look at,” give the word delivered Adrienne Marquez, a lead transportation security officer at Transportation Asylum Administration (TSA). “It allows me to just check each area of the bag and I’ll double-check fears on my image rather than physically.”
CT technology is best known for its use in medical imaging and diagnostics. While it’s already being hand-me-down in airports to screen checked baggage, only recently has the machine been scaled down ample supply to be incorporated into security checkpoints.
It allows passengers to leave electronics adore laptops and cell phones in their bags, and down the road could consider them to keep liquids in as well.
“In the future our goal is to possibly press a checkpoint environment where you don’t have to take anything out of your bag,” mean David von Damm, a Federal Security Director for TSA.