Airport Body Scanners are Safe
Posted in General Support group on Fri, 29 Jul 2011
The machine exposure is perpotional to resoution for a fixed signal to noise ratio. 0.5 mm resoution requires 10x the exposure or [brightness] as a 2.5mm image.
Airport Body Scanners are Safe
Posted in General Support group on Fri, 29 Jul 2011
Children, elderly, expecting mothers and people with DNA repair issues should avoid this equipment. The skin dose is closer to 1/20 to 1/50th of a chest x-ray. Less penetrating [<50KVp] x-rays/gamma...