Bibliographic Citation

 
7,365,672
Detection of a concealed object
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04/29/2008
US patent application 10/697,965
Keller, Paul E. (Richland, WA); Hall, Thomas E. (Kennewick, WA); McMakin, Douglas L. (Richland, WA)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA
United States Department of Energy
AC06-76RL01830
Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, WA)
Disclosed are systems, methods, devices, and apparatus to determine if a clothed individual is carrying a suspicious, concealed object. This determination includes establishing data corresponding to an image of the individual through interrogation with electromagnetic radiation in the 200 MHz to 1 THz range. In one form, image data corresponding to intensity of reflected radiation and differential depth of the reflecting surface is received and processed to detect the suspicious, concealed object.

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