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Public Sofety Xmy Imaging System An At right is the Model 60007A InnerView Real- industrial- time X-ray Imaging System, produced by use device National Imaging Systems, a division of represents a Healmate, Inc., Northbrook, Illinois. It is third an industrial-use device that offers low cost and generation operational safety for such x-ray applications spinoff from as airport and building security (inspection of technology luggage, containers, boxes, etc.), non- originally destructive testing, quality control developed for inspection and production inspection. x-ray The InnerView device represents a third astronomy generation spinoff from technology originally Food and Drug Administration allows use of the developed for x-ray astronomy, where imaging at FluoroScan without the lead aprons, film badges or extremely low intensity is required. Goddard Space lead lined walls that other x-ray systems require. Flight Center adapted the imaging technology to a The InnerView imaging is a direct spinoff from novel Earth-use product: a small, portable, isotopic, FluoroScan. The system consists of an x-ray tube, a minimal radiation x-ray instrument knowfi as the TV camera and a detectorhntensifier (all packaged Low Intensity X-ray Imaging Scope; it was designed within the compact unit at left in the photo) and a principally for medical emergencies, for example, on- nine-inch black and white display monitor. It is also site use to examine injuries at an accident scene or a available in a mobile unit in which the monitor is sports contest. transported on a wheelbase and the x-ray tube, NASA licensed the technology for commercial camera and detectodintensifier are mounted on a applications to several companies, among them swinging "C-arm" affixed to the monitor. Healmate, Inc. Healthh4ate used it to develop the In industrial use, the x-rayed object casts a FluoroScan medical x-ray system for hospital shadow that is converted to a visible light image on a operating rooms and physicians' offices; the scintillator screen. After being reduced in size by a company replaced the isotopic penetrating source fiber optic taper, the image is intensified 50,000 times with a variable power x-ray tube and added a by an electron multiplier known as an MCP number of improvements while retaining the small (microchannel plate intensifier). The closed circuit size and light weight of the Goddard system. TV camera deposits the images on the monitor. Because of the low intensity imaging technology, the