Re: Police X-rays - "Strip Searches"

[SAFarberMSPH@CS.COM]

This news note gives a whole new definition to the common use of so-called 

"spectrum stripping" in gamma or x-ray spectroscopy to identify or "uncover 

"unknowns.


Stewart Farber

Public Health Sciences

email: SAFarberMSPH@cs.com

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In a message dated 9/6/01 8:01:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 

e-pittman@northwestern.edu writes:



> Came across this today while reading the local paper.  Thought it might be 
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> of interest to RadSafers.
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> Strip search or X-ray?
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>                                      New technology might someday eliminate 
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> the need
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>                                      for strip searches
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>                                      BY KEN KOSKY Times Staff Writer
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>                                      If you were jailed today, you'd have 
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> to take off your clothes
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