Complementary Technologies

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Two complementary technologies, Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence (NRF) imaging, licensed exclusively from MIT, and EZ-3D™, developed and patented by Passport Systems, can be used to inspect cargo.

EZ-3D™ is a unique technology for mapping cargo containers in 3-D. It analyzes photon interactions with matter and recognizes their dependency on matter’s atomic number. It classifies the container’s contents by atomic number and mass, instantaneously and automatically alerting for the presence of suspect cargo and its location.

NRF is the most powerful non-intrusive and useful technology for unambiguously determining what cargo is made of. By exciting nuclei using high-energy photons, it prompts materials to emit photons across an emission spectrum enabling accurate analysis of their isotopic content. The NRF signature of any isotope is unique and unmistakable, enabling automated threat identification. For example, NRF can tell the difference between two isotopes of uranium: 235U, which can be used to make a nuclear weapon, and 238U, which cannot, but which can be found in some industrial products.