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Airport Passenger Screening Using Backscatter X-Ray Machines: Compliance with Standards

Cover Image: A common scene at a fictional airport employing passenger screening using a backscatter X-ray machine. Artist: Erik Svedberg. Image created by ray tracing, where computational rays of ...
Security

AS&E receives $22M order from feds for X-ray screening systems

U.S. Government adds an additional 22 Z Backscatter Vans to its ZBV fleet American Science and Engineering, a leader in X-ray detection technology, announced today that the Company has received a ...
Security

AS&E CEO Testifies That Backscatter X-Ray Technology Provides a Higher Level of Detection

WASHINGTON -- Mr. Anthony R. Fabiano, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Science and Engineering, Inc., a leader in X-ray detection technology, will testify today before the House ...
Arizona Daily Star

Controversial X-ray screening to be tested in Phoenix

PHOENIX - Sky Harbor International Airport here will test a controversial new federal screening system that takes X-rays of passenger's bodies in an effort to find concealed explosives and other ...
Washington Examiner

Researchers: Airport body scanners safe for individuals but may raise risk for population

The danger from radiation exposure for any given person walking through a backscatter X-ray machine at an airport is low, but there’s controversy over whether the aggregate risk to the traveling ...