Re: X-rays or Strip Search? -Reply -Reply

[Al Tschaeche <antatnsu@pacbell.net>]

Kathleen Kaufman wrote:
> 
> The issue is getting something for the dose, otherwise the dose, no
> matter how low, is unnecessary. A weapon is EASILY detected on a
> metal scanner. 

What if the weapon is not made of metal?

Remember that every inmate is strip searched after a
> visit, so that the only way a weapon (or anything else) could be brought
> in is for the inmate to swallow it- all under the watch of a guard-
> probably not much risk on that issue! 

We believe that radiation exposure
> ought to result in some benefit, & we just don't see it for this unit.

If there are data that demonstrate the unit does not detect things that
its designers say it shoud detect, I would be happy to see that data.  

> Remember, I have seen the unit & the images it produces.

And, is it your judgement that those images will never be useful in
preventing the wrong kind of materials to get into a prison where the
machine is used?  Have you communicated your judgement to the designers
and to those who purchaced the machines?  If so, what were their
responses?  We do need the whole picture here.

By-the-way, did anyone do an ALARA evaluation for these machines; anyone
know?  Al Tschaeche antatnsu@pacbell.net
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