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1. US20120139536 - Shipping container explosives and contraband detection system using nuclear quadrupole resonance

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United States of America
Application Number 12957919
Application Date 01.12.2010
Publication Number 20120139536
Publication Date 07.06.2012
Grant Number 08710837
Grant Date 29.04.2014
Publication Kind B2
IPC
G01V 3/00
GPHYSICS
01MEASURING; TESTING
VGEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS
3Electric or magnetic prospecting or detecting; Measuring magnetic field characteristics of the earth, e.g. declination or deviation
G01R 33/44
GPHYSICS
01MEASURING; TESTING
RMEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES
33Arrangements or instruments for measuring magnetic variables
20involving magnetic resonance
44using nuclear magnetic resonance
Applicants Zank Paul A.
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
Apostolos John T.
Feng Judy
Inventors Zank Paul A.
Apostolos John T.
Feng Judy
Agents Long Daniel J.
Title
(EN) Shipping container explosives and contraband detection system using nuclear quadrupole resonance
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Abstract
(EN)

For container-carried explosives or contraband in which the container is made of conductive material and can therefore constitute a Faraday cage, stimulated emissions due to nuclear quadrupole resonance are detected utilizing a terminated balanced transmission line and a directional coupler for the detection of explosives, contraband, narcotics and the like that exist in metal containers.
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