In the field of airport baggage inspection, a multi-level screening
procedure is used. When a first level screening system (18) detects a
"suspicious region" inside a bag, it is transferred to a next level
system (2) where the bag gets rescanned. According to the present
invention, a device/method is provided for finding and tracking the
suspicious region inside the baggage which allows to reduce the area to
be rescanned significantly. For this purpose, the image from the first
level system together with the position of the suspicious region within
the image is transferred from the first level system to the second level
system. On arrival of the bag at the second level (21), a simple X-ray
transmission image is measured using an additional source/detector system
(6). The two images are then rigidly registered in order to exactly
determine the suspicious region in the second level scanner system.