ADSA 04

A fourth ADSA workshop was held at NU on October 5-6, 2010, under the direction of Professor Michael Silevitch, Harry Martz (LLNL) and Carl Crawford (DHS S&T). The purpose of the fourth workshop was to discuss how third parties could participate in the development of reconstruction algorithms for explosive detection equipment based on CT scanning.

Industry/practitioner, government, and national lab participants were: Department of Homeland Security, Morpho Detection, Telesecurity Sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Siemens Corporate Research, General Dynamics AIS, L-3 Communications, Surescan, Optosecurity, Reveal Imaging, Rapiscan, Guardian Technologies, Smiths Detection, Analogic, Transportation Security Administration, XinRay Systems, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Zomographic.

The workshop addressed advanced reconstruction algorithms for CT scanners. Most of the presentations dealt with medical imaging. However, a few presented results for explosives detection. An advanced reconstruction algorithm for security should lead to improved performance of explosive detection equipment. Performance is defined as increased PD, decreased PFA, larger population of explosives being detected and lower minimum mass.

A copy of this report can be requested by contacting Mariah Nobrega at 617-373-3031 or via email at: mnobrega@coe.neu.edu.