1. Body (1) of a notch-back motor vehicle, comprising, in its rear portion, a rear loading floor (6) on which are fixed two lateral pillars (2) each comprising a wheel housing (7) and a rear-end lateral pillar (3) constituting a portion of a side of the passenger compartment, the two rear-end lateral pillars (2) being maintained parallel to each other in their upper portions by a cross member (19) called rear window upper cross member and adapted to support the roof, means (11, 15, 16, 17) for stiffening at least one lateral pillar so as to transmit forces to which the lower portion of said body (1a) is subjected when the vehicle is moving directly to the upper cross member, characterized in that the stiffening means comprise a panel stiffener (15) having a shape conjugated to the rear-end lateral pillar and extending from the rear window lower cross member (5) to the rear window upper cross member.
2. Body according to claim 1, characterized in that the stiffening means comprise two rear-end lower wall portions (15, 16) having thicknesses dimensioned so as to support the forces and welded to the stiffener.
3. Body according to claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the stiffening means comprise an upward strengthening piece (11) dimensioned to support the forces.
4. Notch-back motor vehicle comprising a body according to any of the previous claims and a rear shelf adapted to cover the space between the trunk and at least a portion of the foldable rear seat characterized in that the shelf is removable.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of remote screening of items of baggage, the method comprising steps of:
performing an X-ray scan of an item under inspection;
storing information about the item obtained during the scan;
linking a unique item identifier with the information to uniquely associate the information with the item under inspection; and
remotely analyzing the information to determine a screening result for the item under inspection.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the information about the item under inspection includes an image file that includes data corresponding to an X-ray image of the item under inspection.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the step of analyzing the information includes analyzing the image file to identify a region of interest in the X-ray image of the item under inspection.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein the method further comprises a step of processing a portion of the image file corresponding to the region of interest in the X-ray image to determine information regarding the region of interest.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises a step of displaying the screening result on an operator interface.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of analyzing the information includes analyzing the information according to a selected detection algorithm.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of performing includes performing a CT scan of the item.