X-ray scans are often associated with medical examinations, but in fact the technology plays a vital role in other industries that keep humans safe. For example, X-ray machines are used in airport baggage scanning, production lines in food and drug factories, and non-destructive quality control of critical mechanical components, such as essential components for aircraft engines.
X-rays are radioactive and can look inside objects. With the help of the rays, food inspectors and security personnel can more easily detect potentially dangerous substances. X-rays can also support precision mechanical operations to ensure quality. Hidden defects, structural contamination or dangerous goods can be detected.
Ams provides a variety of sensing solutions for industrial computed tomography (CT) machine and security screening machine applications to enable fast, high-precision image acquisition while ensuring reliability, high sensitivity and low power consumption. Continuous integration, while maintaining the highest frame rate and without ADC dead zone issues, avoids charge losses, ensures low noise, and X-ray imaging with the lowest possible amount of radiation. This significantly reduces the pressure that may be placed on the exposed substance.
The Ams solution consists of pixel arrays up to 32x8 pixels of monolithic multi-layered sensors, as well as embedded multi-channel ADCs. By reducing the complexity of the connection between the photodiode pixel array and the ADC, these integrated Settings simplify the board layout, thereby optimizing the overall BOM.
To meet the need for greater design flexibility, Ams also offers discrete ADC solutions with a high number of channels or specially customized integrated products. Customers can choose from advanced sensing solutions suitable for CT and plate detectors, as well as large-scale CMOS sensors that can be converted directly or indirectly.
CT screening machine
Ams's current-to-digital converter captures high-resolution images at extremely high speeds. High-speed image acquisition can improve the work efficiency, reduce the power consumption of each channel, and improve the immunity, thus reducing the system cost. Customers can choose between different architectures and integrations to enjoy maximum design flexibility. Our solution is very rich and complete, which means that each application can be balanced between resolution, integration time and power consumption.
Industrial X-ray
X-ray scanners can be used in a variety of industrial applications. In the aviation and automotive industries, for example, high-pressure components of engines and aircraft landing gear are examined with X-rays. The same is true of high-pressure pipelines used in the natural gas or oil industry. X-ray imaging technology is also widely used in electronics to verify the assembly quality of components on PCBS.
Ams provides circuit reading solutions for these applications. These read ics can be flexibly configured for detectors of various sizes and shapes.
Food testing
X-ray imaging technology can be used to ensure that no harmful substances are present in packaged foods. To this end, ams offers a high-channel current-to-digital converter that enables very fast integration, helping to design high-quality scanners with the lowest possible X-ray volume.
