Re: Q: dose from airport x-ray?

[kmq@cosmail1.ctd.ornl.gov (Kim McMahan)]

At 01:15 PM 9/27/96 -0500, Melissa Woo wrote:
>I have a question from someone who is concerned about putting food
>through a typical airport x-ray security scanner and would like to give
>her a "real life" frame of reference.  As I have no idea of the typical
>operating parameters of such a unit, I can't do the calcs for
>exposure/dose/whatever to an item going through the scanner.
>
>As numbers tend to be meaningless in a case like this, what would be
>ideal is some sort of comparison relative to say, what dose her food
>would receive from a trans-Atlantic flight or something similar. 
>Anyone have a rough estimate?
>