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Omega International Technology manufacturer of Industrial x-ray systems including Computed Tomography (CT), Pipeline Inspection System (ThruVU) for Corrosion/Erosion, Weld Inspection System and Proprietary solid state detector arrays. Omega International Technology, founded in 1987, is a small high technology R/D and manufacturing company. SBA has certified Omega as a Small Disadvantage Business under section 8(a). Since it's inception, Omega has developed several x-ray systems for NDE using Linear Array of Solid State x-ray Detectors. Omega has had several R/D as well as manufacturing contracts from Navy, USDA, medical and industrial manufacturers. Omega is headed by its founder, Dr. Nand K. Gupta. Dr. Gupta has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics in 1969 from University of Massachusetts. Dr. Gupta has been involved with the research and manufacturing of nuclear detectors for Alpha, Beta, Neutrons, Gamma and X-rays for the last 30 years. Additionally, for the last 25 years Dr. Gupta has been involved with design of x-ray CT scanners and other Digital Radiographic systems for medical and Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE). Dr. Nand Gupta is one of the few leading
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scientists in the world in the field of Radiographic Imaging Instrumentation development. During past 34 years, Dr. Gupta has published many scientific and technical articles in radiation detection and imaging instrumentation. Omega employs several other professionals with Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Physics, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering to carry out complex system projects. Omega is located in a large industrial building and occupies 6,500 sq ft area. The other tenant in the building is a big machine shop with large machining centers. There are several other large machine shops and other types of manufacturing plants within walking distance. Omega has worked very closely with the area machine shops for our CT Scanner, Food Scanner
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and Nuclear Fuel Scanning systems. All our machining has been done by the neighborhood machine shops. Even the large gantry of our Tangential CT Scanner was built by the next door machine shop. So, even very large mechanical gantries do not need to be shipped by trucks instead they are delivered by fork lifts within the neighborhood.
We have a small machine shop with a Lathe, Milling machine, Electric Shear, sheet metal Brake and other small machining equipment and tools. The machine shop also includes a one ton overhead crane for handling gantries and other equipment.
Omega has two 14'x 20' radiation shielded rooms. One of these is shielded for 420 kV x-rays and incorporates the Tangential CT Scanner system. Omega also has one 6' x 6' x 6' shielded enclosure with pneumatic doors and 320 kV shielding. The radiation shielded rooms and enclosures are used for application research and system test. In addition to the 420 kV based Tangential CT system, Omega owns one 300 kV, two 150 kV, one 100 kV and one 80 kV X-ray systems for research and experiments for system designs and development.
There are many detector arrays and individual detector systems for experimentation and imaging. There are various type of very small to large linear and rotary motion systems. There is one conveyor belt system for scanning food products and other small industrial objects. There are several 12 bit and 16 bit Analog-to-Digital converter systems. We have fully equipped laboratory with various electronic, optical and mechanical test facilities.
During past 12 years, we have developed several radiographic imaging systems like:
The ThruVU System for measuring wall loss in insulated and bare pipelines due to corrosion/erosion.
The Filmless Cassette Radiography System as a direct substitute for x-ray film for thick objects.
A high speed Conveyor Belt System for detecting foreign objects in food products.
Tangential CT Scanner System for 3-D volume CT scanning.
Digital Radiography System.
We are developing a very high resolution solid state detector array for inspecting circumference welds of pipes during installation of on-shore and off-shore pipelines. This system will inspect the pipe welds in Real-Time as the pipeline is being laid in the field. This system will use a x-ray tube on a internal pipeline crawler. An extremely high resolution solid state detector array will be installed (outside the pipeline) on a rotating mechanism (similar to the one which is used for the welding bug) to collect radiographic data for 360 degree circumference weld. The system will provide real time images and software for analysis of the weld.
We are also developing a very high resolution small x-ray CT Scanner Systems for industrial applications. Customer List
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