Re: Airport X-rays & Computers

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

I have put many different brand laptops and printers through the 
x-ray machines located throughout the USA, and foreign countries 
(where the x-ray dose is MUCH higher - similar to a fluoro unit) 
without any problems whatsoever.  I have also had diskettes and CDs 
irradiated as well... The exposures from these x-ray units are 
negligible, and all pretty much use image intensification, and not 
continuous exposure.

I believe that the technician was using the typical hysterical 
approach to something that involved radiation exposure without any 
consideration or merits of the conclusions determined.

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Sandy Perle
Technical Director
ICN Dosimetry Division
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Office: (800) 548-5100 x2306 
Fax:    (714) 668-3111
  
sandyfl@earthlink.net
sperle@icnpharm.com

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