Rapiscan Systems

Rapiscan Systems is an American privately held company that specialises in walk-through metal detectors and X-ray machines for screening airport luggage and cargo.

[1] The company headquarters, in Torrance, California, USA, is the primary location for research and development, engineering, manufacturing, sales and marketing, and customer service support.

Two years later Rapiscan's X-Ray Division and Adams Electronics were combined as IAL Security Products, located in Crawley, West Sussex.

The systems were originally adapted from metal detectors used in the mining industry to locate parts of broken drill bits in minerals on a conveyor belt.

The system was originally developed by CXR Ltd in Surrey, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded a grant for the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester to work on the reconstruction problem for Rapiscan.