[ RadSafe ] Is it a privacy or radiation issue?

[Otto G. Raabe]

At 08:25 PM 11/24/2010, Ahmad Al-Ani wrote:

>According to Johns Hopkins Report below, the effective dose per scan 
>is less than 0.05 micro Sv, the same dose an airline passenger at 
>10,000 m altitude get in 3 minutes from cosmic rays.
>
>http://www.tsa.gov/assets/pdf/jh_apl_v2.pdf


The dose from a single pulse is not relevant. What is the dose for a 
high-resolution screening of the whole body?

Based on the letter to Dr. Holden from the DHHS discussed above, the 
actual absorbed dose to skin per screening is probably  5.6 mrem or 
56 micro Sv.

Otto


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