X-RAY INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING AN IMAGE PROCESSING PROCEDURE FOR THE X-RAY INSPECTION APPARATUS

An X-ray inspection apparatus is provided with a shied box, a conveyor, an X-ray irradiator, an X-ray line sensor, a monitor, and a control computer to enable the apparatus to inspect an article by automatically selecting an appropriate image processing procedure that is most appropriate for the article. The control computer creates function blocks comprising an image forming section, an image processing procedure adoption determination unit, and a contaminant determination unit as a CPU loads various programs stored in a memory units such as HDD.