Scott Wolter awarded U.S. Department of Homeland Security grant

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Scott Wolter, associate professor of engineering, received a $10,447 subaward from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with Northeastern University and Duke University, for a project entitled, “Characterizing, modeling, and mitigating texturing in X-ray diffraction imaging.”

Wolter will contribute to research focusing on anomaly detection as it pertains to X-ray diffraction imaging for airport and mass transit security applications. His work will focus on studies involving the understanding of materials texturing on reliability of threat detection.

This funding supports efforts on the development of next generation X-ray diffraction imaging systems relying on X-ray scattering rather than X-ray attenuation for baggage item identification.