[ RadSafe ] MD says TSA Scanner is Health Risk

[Dixon, John E. (CDC/ONDIEH/NCEH)]

Strange. MD's (oncologists and the like) are the same folks that deliver thousands or millions of times of this machines dose equivalent when diagnosing or treating cancer. Without seeing data on these units, one can't justify such claims anything but hype. Using known values of such machines, the dose equivalent (whole body)  delivered per scan is on the order of .02 mrem. 

Is this MD calling this dose "unsafe?" Are we all forgetting comon sense?

My 2 cents worth.

John Dixon

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