[ RadSafe ] TSA Scanner is Health Risk

[Otto G. Raabe]

At 01:39 PM 11/30/2010, blhamrick at aol.com wrote:
>There are documents available on the web covering various 
>assessments made, the instrumentation used, etc.  See, e.g., 
>http://www.tsa.gov/assets/pdf/jh_apl_v1.pdf, which is the assessment 
>of the Rapiscan Secure 1000 by Johns Hopkins University Applied 
>Physics Laboratory.
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Dear Barbara,

Thanks for this interesting and useful document.

I see that the skin doses are given as "effective" doses which means 
they are absorbed doses with a quality factor of unity divided by 100.

Otto

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