Prospects for the application of muon tomography under customs control
Abstract
The article considers the prospects of using muon tomography for the customs control of large-sized cargoes, containers and vehicles. The advantages of muon tomography (high penetrating power, the absence of additional radiation load on personnel and controlled goods and vehicles, the possibility of constructing a three-dimensional image of the monitoring object, the detection of contraband goods by an effective atomic number even in shielding containers) make it a promising method of introscopy for the customs control of large cargo.
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