Re: Airport screening and medicine

[Brian Rees <brees@LANL.GOV>]

Tom,



I have measured the dose through a typical x-ray inspection machine at 

140-200 uR. (0.14 -0.20 mR) This is more than an order of magnitude (10x) 

less than the dose received during your flight.  You can look up radiation 

doses received during a flight on a number of sites,  Reference provided 

below.  There are more references in the archives, use subject line below.



Brian Rees



Subject: RE: In-flight radiation doses

From: "Edwards, Richard W" <richard.w.edwards@boeing.com>

To: <radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu>



In the midst of all of this was a reference to on-line dose calculators. 

There's CARI, which is on a U.S. FAA web site 

(http://www.cami.jccbi.gov/AAM-600/Radiation/600radio.html) and EPCARD, 

which is on the German National Research Center for Environment and Health 

web site (http://www.gsf.de/epcard/eng_start.php).



 >From: Bill Prestwich [mailto:prestwic@mcmaster.ca]

 >Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 7:53 AM

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At 07:56 AM 11/13/2004, you wrote:

>Greetings all:

>

>I fly a lot across the U.S. (20 times this year) and I

>take several medications.  Some of my pills have been

>screened several times.  My question is how much

>damage is there to my medications that have been

>screened several times?  Has this ever been looked

>into by anyone?

>

>Thanks in advance,

>

>Tom Savin

>

>

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