Multi-spectral x-ray imaging

该项目将为食品安全行业的X射线先进检测创建一个平台。该传感器将采用目前用于石油和天然气行业的单光子检测相机芯片，并对其进行重新配置，以满足食品检测行业的需求，该行业的X射线检测系统市场价值超过10亿欧元。该传感器可以使用多达六个能量通道，从而实现更复杂的检测和更高效的系统，以应对多种检测挑战。在全球范围内，还没有人将这种方法推向市场，用于真实的应用和应对食品检测行业的新挑战。这项变革性的技术将创建一个数据库，用于开发新的英国知识产权。处理数据的新方法，包括如何将其用于人工智能领域的方法，用于整个供应链的生产监控和成分检查，以及生产线末端检查，将有助于在合同压力下引入变革的行业的灵活性。主要制造商将能够更好地遵守立法，及早发现问题，防止后期代价高昂的召回，提高自动化流程的准确性，并跟踪、追踪和存储各种数字化制造数据。数字化转型可以为大型制造商带来竞争优势，他们将通过供应链推动技术。同样的技术可以有效地应用于机场安全、邮政安全、弹药检查和飞机复合材料检查。从硬件和图像处理的角度来看，英国都处于这项技术的最前沿。该项目将为引领工业多光谱检测的产品奠定基础。

The project will create a platform for advanced detection by X-ray in the food safety industry. It will take a single photon detection camera chip, currently used in the oil and gas sector, and re-configure it to address needs in the food inspection industry, an industry where the X-ray detection system market is worth more than 1bn Euro.The sensor can use up to six energy channels allowing more complex detections and more efficient systems for multiple detection challenges. Globally, no one has brought this method to market for real time applications and for addressing new challenges in the food inspection industry.This transformative technology will create a library of data from which new, UK-based IP can be developed. New ways to process the data, including methods on how it can be used in the field of AI, for production monitoring and ingredient inspection across the supply chain, as well as end of line inspections will facilitate flexibility in an industry under contract pressure to introduce change. Major manufacturers will be better able to comply with legislation, identify issues early, prevent later costly recalls, improve the accuracy of automated processes and track, trace and store a variety of digital manufacturing data. Digital transformation can bring competitive advantage to large manufacturers, who will push technology through the supply chain.The same technology can be translated to be effective in airport security, postal security, munitions inspection and for inspecting composites used in airplanes. It is essential the UK is in the forefront of this technology from both a hardware and an image processing perspective. This project will build the foundation for products that will lead the way in industrial multi-spectral inspection.