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Airport Body Scanners are Safe

Airport body scanners do not pose a health risk, says study. The University of California study appearing in the "Archives of Internal Medicine" found that a traveler would have to go through a body scanner 50 times to receive the same amount of radiation as from a dental X-ray. ...Read More

Posted on : Friday, July 29, 2011 2:35 PM
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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 delivers most of the energy to the skin and underling tissue. The whole-body dose used is a metric of internal organ cancer rate and is not applicable to lower energy x-rays.
Replied on Friday, July 29, 2011 2:35 PM
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.
Replied on Friday, July 29, 2011 2:42 PM
 


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