Professor Chen Ping's team from the School of Information and Communication Engineering at North University of China in North China's Shanxi province was awarded first prize by the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (CSOE) for technical inventions at the 2024 Photonics West China for their project "High Sensitivity Multi-Spectral X-ray Imaging Technology and Applications".

The award-winning project, independently completed by North University of China, focuses on the key scientific challenges of matching structures and material components for multi-spectral X-ray imaging. It introduces an energy-adaptive high-dynamic multi-spectral imaging method, addressing the issue of multi-spectral decoupling separation and significantly enhancing the detection sensitivity and spectral resolution of X-ray imaging systems.

The project's achievements have been recognized as internationally advanced, particularly excelling in energy-adaptive CT imaging. The project has been granted one patent in the United States, 12 national invention patents, and six software copyrights.

It has also published 65 SCI papers in journals such as IEEE TIM, IEEE TCI, OE, and PRE. The project's outcomes have served key national products and provided services for important events such as the National People's Congress, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.