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Website www.xris.eu Founded 2010 Type of business Private		Headquarters Liège, Belgium Number of employees 10 (2015)

Industry Manufacturing,Defense (military),Non-destructive testing Key people Christophe Greffe (CEO),Nicolas Poelst (Int'l Sales Manager) Products Digital X-ray,X-ray generator,Digital radiography

X ris x ray imaging solutions

X-RIS (for X-Ray Imaging Solutions) is a Belgian company based at Liège and active in the field of portable digital radiography in non-destructive testing and in security. In 2014, the company supplied x-ray material to the FBI Academy at Quantico and in 2015 to the training center of Huntsville, Alabama. The company won the Belgium Deloitte Technology Fast 50 (2015).

Interview with deloitte s 2015 technology fast 50 winners x ris and acar up

Development

X-RIS is a start-up that was created in 2010 at Liège. The company is specialised in the delivery of digital X-ray devices in NDT and in security.

The company designs and manufactures portable X-ray generators, flat panel detectors and complete Xray systems. It is active in the field of foundries and shipyeards, in the aeronautics (Safran, Turbomeca, RAAF, SABCA, SONACA) and in the oil industry in which it supplies TOTAL. In security the applications are demining (EOD and IED), forensics, customs and counter-terrorism.

In 2011, the company developed a customised X-ray scanner for the Royal Museum for Central Africa of Belgium. The system was dedicated to the study of zoological specimens of the Institute, some more than 70 years old. In using two flat panels, the system can X-ray small specimen from 1 to 3 cm with a resolution of 48 µm up to snakes 1 m long.

End 2014, X-RIS wins a contract with the FBI Academy. According to journalist Eric Dagonnier, the system distinguishes itself by its « determining speed » that « realises the analysis in less than 20 seconds ». The contract was renewed in 2015 but this time for the Alabama training center.

Awards

In November 2015, the company wins the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 challenge rewarding the 50 technological enterprises with the highest growing rate in Belgium. X-RIS also comes first in the category IT & Digital Solutions for its innovation and performances.

Products and technologies

Digital X-ray can generate images on the spot for immediate analysis, for inspection and security duties including bomb detection and disposal, as a tool for VIP security and protection, searches for drug and contraband smuggling, customs offices, forensics and applications in Nondestructive testing (NDT) such as pipe inspections in refineries and the petrochemical industry, composite material testing in the aerospace industry as well as inspection of welding in shipyards and art and archeological artifacts.

The following products have been designed and are manufactured and supplied by X-RIS:

X-Ray generators

GemX is a battery-powered, wireless controlled, portable constant potential X-ray monobloc. It can operate up to 200 kV. The oil insulation offers a duty cycle of 2 hours of continuous X-ray per day. The smal focal spot of 0.7 x 0.8 mm (EN 12543) improves image quality. In combination with a CR or a DR, GemX can be used for the inspection of steel up to 40 mm thick in compliance with NDT standards.

Flat panel detectors

DeReO WA (wide area) are Direct Radiography (DR) flat panel detectors. They provide a digital image of the objects that are radiographied. DeReO WA have a wide active area of 40 cm x 40 cm or 25 x 30 cm and a real time inspection modality to work in continuous mode as a movie camera. Their rugged conception and the fact that they doesn't require any synchronisation make them very flexible to use on the field. Their pixel of 200 µm and 140 µm offer a good compromise between sensitivity, signal to noise ratio (SNR) and resolution. They are controlled with Maestro NDT software. Fixed versions and high energy versions have been developed for castings applications and to be used in combination with gamma sources or linear accelerators.

DeReO HR (high resolution) are ultra-small panels with pixels of 48 and 96 µm. The CMOS reading head and the electronic board have been separated in two modules. This offers an important compactness to the reading head. Two edges around the detective area have a width of only 3 mm of dead area. This design permits to use the panel in area with difficult access. Reading heads are interchangeable and the end-user can use the most appropriate one in function of circumstances for an optimized cost. The detector is IP65. The electronic module is battery-powered and can also control some X-ray generators wireless. DeReO HR is class-B ISO 17636-2 compliant from 1.5 to 12 mm thickness of standard steel alloys.

References

X-RIS Wikipedia

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