Mine detection technology

A ComScan450 detector using X-ray scattering technology for accurate demining has been successfully tested in Germany.

X-ray scattering (TXPHTX) technology was developed on the basis of the Compton Scattering Effects in Quantum Mechanics (discovered by physicist Arthur Holly Compton in 1923).

Specifically, the X-ray (or Gamma Ray) photons have energies in the range of 0.5MeV to 3.5MeV that interact with electrons in any material (such as metal in earth, sand, etc.), the path of photons when encountered in a heterogeneous environment will be altered.

The common ground is homogeneous, where the bombs, mines, TXPHTX detectors will now receive and calculate the X-ray signal feedback parameters after they impact the bomb signal, Unexploded ordnance is in the ground and is shown in 2D.

TXPHTX technology is the method of direct imaging by the scattering signal corresponding to the material density.

YXLON International X-Ray GmbH's x-ray scattering technology is coordinated with the German Federal Government's PHILIPS Research Laboratories. The first detector (ComScan 450) was completed and put into trial for bombs left over from the war.

Detector structure includes: X-ray generator; X-ray diffraction multi-channel energy receiver.

The main advantages of TXPHTX technology are: Define the shape, depth of the object; detect non-metal explosives; Unexploded ordnance is found in various geological and soil conditions, in the soil covered by vegetation. Low false alarm rate, high detection efficiency, high image resolution.

In the image depicting, with a 450kV X-ray tube, this beam has deep penetration depths to detect anti-personnel landmines and anti-tank landmines buried under ground tactics of countries currently in use.