RE: Exposure to Photographic Film in Airport X-ray Scanners

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

This is interesting, but does anyone know the effective E, or maybe the
kVp, of those beams?

cja
alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu

At 06:14 AM 6/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
>We have an older unit here on base.  It takes 15 seconds for an object to
pass all the way through the x-ray.  Sending a pressurized ion chamber
through the unit, I measured 0.04 mrem.
>
>Gary Lindsey
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