FW: HIGH-TECH SECURITY TOOLS GET A SECOND LOOK

["Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>]

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John Jacobus, MS

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HIGH-TECH SECURITY TOOLS GET A SECOND LOOK

from The San Francisco Chronicle



Security specialists are taking another look at technologies that seemed

out of the question before last week's terrorist attack on the East Coast.



Nobody expects any high-tech solution will erase America's new sense of

insecurity. But there are some innovative approaches that could find a

place, and particularly promising are recent advances in low-dose X-ray

scanning.



A commercial "backscatter X-ray" system capable of seeing what's under a

person's clothing -- including plastic weapons or explosives -- was

installed in 1997 as an experiment at the Montana State Prison, a

1,300-inmate facility at Deer Lodge, Mont.



Warden Michael Mahoney says the prison is now scanning about 300 inmates

twice daily as they move back and forth between work areas and their

cellblocks.



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/17/MN201831.DTL&typ

e=science



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