MICROSCAN is a collaboration between the following organisations: TWI Ltd, X-TEK Systems Ltd, Lot Oriel GmbH, Machine Vision Products Inc, Microtel technologie elettroniche s.p.a., Beta Electronics Ltd, Ultrasonic Sciences Ltd, Goodrich Control Systems Ltd, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V. and Kaunas University of Technology. The project is co-ordinated and managed by TWI Ltd and is partly funded by the EC under the CRAFT programme ref: COOP-CT-2003-508613.