[ RadSafe ] Correction - Airport Body Scanners

[HOWARD.LONG at comcast.net]

Correction: Extra dose in Taiwan apts averaged 0.4 Sv (not 4.0 cSv) 

associated with just 10% of the deformities in non-exposed equivalents. 



Howard Long  




"UNDEREXPOSED  -  What if Radiation Is Actually GOOD for You", 

Ed Hiserodt's paperback, is on my waiting room table, and well-thumbed. 



The Prologue is riveting (in brief):   

             " Radiation can be dangerous. 

             So can ignorance.   

X-rays for wrist fracture scared a woman into having an abortion, 

to prevent the 'likelihood of a deformed child' [ignorant of 

200 FEWER deformities in Taiwan apts where 4cSv over 10years 

Chen, Luan, J Am Phys & Surg 13/1/Spring '08]. 

A health physicist estimated the increased radiation as less 

than from a coast to coast flight. - 

I wonder what my niece or nephew would have been like" 



Publicize your engineering analysis, Ed! 



Howard Long, family doctor  



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Hiserodt" <hise at sbcglobal.net> 
To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu 
Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2010 8:36:26 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Airport Body Scanners 

I recently received this email from a friend who thinks that I know 
something about radiation since I wrote a book on the beneficial effects of 
LLR.  Hey, when did writing on a subject and having any knowledge of it 
become synonymous?   (Remember Al Gore?)  Anyway here is his question.  Any 
comments on it would be appreciated. 

  

"Regarding the virtual strip-search machines that will be appearing at 
airports across the country, how much radiation do they actually release and 
how does this compare to the radiation we are normally exposed to anyway? 
How dangerous are these machines, if at all, for someone who does a lot of 
flying?  I understand that there are two technologies the TSA uses to peer 
through clothing: 

  

"One uses millimeter waves - does this involve any radiation; is it 
completely safe? 

  

"The other is the backscatter X-ray." 

  

Ed Hiserodt 

Maumelle, AR 

501 258 2571