Company Introduces New X-Ray Product

A new era in X-ray product will be available soon for food manufacturers. The Multix ME100 is a multi-energy spectrometer which enables discrimination between materials in complex products. Each material has a unique X-Ray absorption signature, and multi-energy spectrometry introduces features that can increase the ability of a system to discriminate between similar materials, based not only on density but also atomic composition linked to spectra analysis. Multi-energy data allows for improved differentiation and categorization between materials that are very similar such as fat or lean elements in meat process; in fruit, it can discriminate the pits from the olive even within water. 

The ME100 is uses a combination of a semiconductor crystal (CdTe/CZT); ASICs; and high-speed, front-end electronics, capable of measuring the energy of each incident X-Ray photon. The ME100 acquires the signature of each specific material in real time, enabling the categorization of contaminants for quality assurance tracking and statistic monitoring. It has a modular architecture built from separate detector modules (DM), with each module containing a 10cm long array of 128 pixels that can be daisy chained to other modules to form a linear detector array compatible with conveyer size for food process, bulk or pipe inspection. The data is transferred to the host system via an interface board using a Giga-Ethernet link. A Multix API (Windows or Linux compatible) residing on the host computer controls the data flow and format. The ME100 counts all the photons in real time, measures the energy of each photon and reconstructs the spectra over a maximum of 128 energy bins between 20 and 160keV. The number of energy bins is flexible and can be configured to match the host systems data transfer and processing capacity. The ME100 detector is configurable by software to be adapted for each specific customer application. The first machine installation is currently in progress in an Italian meat manufacturing plant. For more information, visit http://www.multixdetection.com.