Personnel screening portal

A personnel screening portal (Figure 21) was developed using a MS/MS mass spectrometer detector [27]. The MS detector consisted of ion trap and time-of-f-light mass (IT-TOF) analyzers with a discharge ionization source (Figure 22). MS/ MS product ions of the various explosives were used for identification. 

Figure 21 MS-based personnel screening portal (Reproduced from www.syagen.com/LitReq/ Presll02/portal.pdf. With permission from Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM).

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K.A. Hanold, Mass Spectrometry Based Personnel Screening Portal, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Analysis and Detection of Explosives, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2001. 

J.E. Parmeter, K.L. Linker, C.L. Rhykerd, D.W. Hannum, F.A. Bouchier, and D.W. Hannum, Development of a Trace Explosives Detection Portal for Personnel Screening, IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, Alexandria, VA, 1998. 

Parmeter, J.E., et al. (1998) Explosives detection portal for high-volume personnel screening. In Proceedings of SPIE 3575, pp. 384-391. 

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