Cover Image: A common scene at a fictional airport employing passenger screening using a backscatter X-ray machine. Artist: Erik Svedberg. Image created by ray tracing, where computational rays of ...

The danger from radiation exposure for any given person walking through a backscatter X-ray machine at an airport is low, but there’s controversy over whether the aggregate risk to the traveling ...

Although the machines have already been pulled from U.S. airports, the results of a report commissioned by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has found that the amount of ...

After a report found that airport screeners were still letting investigators tote knives, guns and fake bombs onto planes, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff endorsed ...

Backscatter X-ray machines may or may not be carcinogenic. The European Union isn’t taking any chances, but the TSA is so confident in their safety that it likely ...

I wanted to get the input of the more knowledgeable minds in here on this issue. I've been seeing a lot of Internet traffic talking about how the Rapiscan X-ray backscatter body scanners might cause ...

Dublin, Nov. 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Handheld Backscatter X-Ray Devices Market - Growth, Trends, and Forecasts (2020 - 2025)" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The ...

In all the controversy over the deployment of full-body scanners in U.S. airports, the health effects of the millimeter wave and backscatter machines has been a muted part of the debate. The ...

If you've ever traveled by air, you've surely experienced airport security. Before boarding, your luggage is passed through an X-ray machine, and passengers also have to go through a full-body scanner ...

From what I have heard, pat-downs are only for people who decline x-ray scanning. If the x-ray machines are not available because the airport or terminal doesn't have them, because the on-duty ...