Holographic Scanner for Safe Real-Time High Throughput Screening of People and Their Bags

The Call in question, DRS-17-2014/2015: Critical infrastructure protection topic 7: SME Instrument topic Protection of urban soft targets and urban critical infrastructures specifically asks European SMEs to come forward with proposals aimed at (among oth er topics) development of novel high throughput screening systems of people and their bags including the ability to screen them in reasonably real time as people approach the entrances to buildings and enter public transportation system. According to the Interim Evaluation of the FP7 activities in Space and Security (2011), the main types of State of the Art (SoA) detection equipment used for screening of people and their baggage include X-ray screening; X-ray based explosive detection systems (EDS); exp losive and chemical trace detection systems (EDT); technologies based on neutron beams; metal detectors and millimeter wave body scanners. None of the current SoA methods is able to offer real-time or rapid enough safe screening of large numbers of peopl e moving towards the entrances of buildings, public transportation or public places We would like to propose a novel approach to high-throughput millimeter wave screening which should allow such real-time screening. The approach is based on the Patent Ap plication US2008/0316088, entitled Video-Rate Holographic Surveillance System.