Novel Full Body Airport Scanners – Probing the Safety and Efficacy quotients

The American College of Radiology has furnished a statement which states that all those travelling by air, passing through the complete body scanning devices as part of routine inspection procedure need not be worried regarding their radiation emission.

Two types of mechanisms are at work here, namely:

• Millimeter Wave Technology

  This equipment employs diminutive levels of radio waves. There are 2 radio aerials swivelling around the body in an elevated pace generating a three dimensional imagery, the output of which appears on a remotely placed screen. The passenger during the scanning procedure would not be requested to keep standing in a particular place nor would they even be needed to change their pace. The displayed pictures appear alike bleary negatives of photographs.

• Backscatter Technology

  This device employs exceedingly weak strength X-ray beams for creating a 2-sided imagery which appears similar to sketches drawn with the help of chalks.

The radiology assemblage states that a person travelling would require undergoing above 1,000 scans annually to be equivalent to a single model X-ray done of the chest region.

Publicly furnishing a statement on this matter, the American College of Radiology group expounded that they were unaware of any proof that both the Millimeter wave and the Backscatter technologies which the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is taking into consideration would be presenting any considerable biological upshots for travellers undergoing screening.

The TSA states that a millimetre wave technology is believed to expose the traveller to ten thousand times lesser radiation energy in comparison to what a mobile phone exposes one to.

The Transportation Safety Administration states that a backscatter X-ray scanning technology exposes an individual to analogous amounts of radiation that he/she would receive when being for 120 seconds on a flight that is airborne at thirty thousand feet.

Both Millimeter wave and Backscatter technology are elective for all those travelling by air. All those air travellers that do not want to undergo this form of screening would be receiving an analogous amount of screening and would go through a pat-down inspection system.

Also, all those air travellers having undergone joint replacement, pacemakers or other forms of implanted medical pieces of equipment in their bodies that would often cause beeping of the metal detectors, mostly opt for this technology as it is faster and least-invasive in comparison to the pat-down inspection procedure.

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