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Full body scanner in millimeter wave scanners technique at Cologne Bonn Airport Image from an active millimeter wave body scanner. A full-body scanner is a device that detects objects on or inside a person's body for security screening purposes, without physically removing clothes or making physical contact.
As of June 1, 2013, all back-scatter full body scanners were removed from use at U.S. airports, because they could not comply with TSA's software requirements. Millimeter-wave full body scanners utilize ATR, and are compliant with TSA software requirements. [12] Software imaging technology can also mask specific body parts. [5]
In contrast to millimeter wave scanners, which create a 3D image, backscatter X-ray scanners will typically only create a 2D image. For airport screening, images are taken from both sides of the human body. [6] Backscatter X-ray was first applied in a commercial low-dose personnel scanning system by Dr. Steven W. Smith.
Rebecca Dolan, AOL The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun testing new software designed to make full body scanner images at airport security more
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Whole body imaging (WBI) refers to the display of the entire body in a single procedure. In medical imaging , it may refer to full-body CT scan or magnetic resonance imaging . It may also refer to different types of Full body scanner technologies used for security screening such as in airports.
An older Rapiscan backscatter X-ray scanner X-ray backscatter technology produces an image that resembles a chalk etching. [121] Full-body scanners have also proven controversial due to privacy and health concerns. The American Civil Liberties Union has called the scanners a "virtual strip search."