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wyldfiretoday at 5:56 AM1 replyview on HN

Here's an article that talks about Dual-energy CT [1]. And another one talking about material discrimination using DECT [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_imaging_(radiography)

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2719491/


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jandrewrogerstoday at 7:02 AM

Neither of those articles seem to support the idea that you can do molecular analysis with x-rays. They are all about elemental analysis, which is not useful for the purpose of detecting explosives.

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