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  2. Full body scanner - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Airport security - Wikipedia

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    CATSA uses x-ray machines to verify the contents of all carry-ons as well as metal detectors, explosive trace detection (ETD) equipment and random physical searches of passengers at the pre-board screening points. X-ray machines, CTX machines, high-resolution x-rays and ETDs are also used to scan checked bags. All checked baggage is always x ...

  4. List of Tracey Takes On... characters - Wikipedia

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    Age 34. Sheneesha is an African American airport security guard. She works the metal detector, along with her friends and co-workers, Hellura (Adele Givens) and Ida (Patricia Belcher). Sheneesha has given birth to seven children despite years of standing next to the airport's X-ray machine. [11]

  5. Man puts his cat in the X-ray machine at the airport and ...

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    The airport security staff might be used to see weird objects passing through the x-ray machine, but this tops them all. A passenger scanned his live cat at the Los Angeles International Airport ...

  6. Worst toy ever -- Airport security x-ray machine - AOL

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    I suppose in an era when every kid owns a boxcar's worth of toys, finding new ideas for play time toys is a challenge. However, I have to believe that we can do better than Wizard Industries ...

  7. Rapiscan Systems - Wikipedia

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    Rapiscan X-ray backscatter scanner Advanced Technology (AT) X-ray systems for baggage scanning. Rapiscan Systems is an American privately held company that specialises in walk-through metal detectors and X-ray machines for screening airport luggage and cargo. The company is owned by OSI Systems. [1]

  8. X-ray machine - Wikipedia

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    An X-ray generator generally contains an X-ray tube to produce the X-rays. Possibly, radioisotopes can also be used to generate X-rays. [1]An X-ray tube is a simple vacuum tube that contains a cathode, which directs a stream of electrons into a vacuum, and an anode, which collects the electrons and is made of tungsten to evacuate the heat generated by the collision.

  9. CTX (explosive-detection device) - Wikipedia

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    The CTX (Computer Tomography X-ray) is an explosive detection device, a family of x-ray devices developed by InVision Technologies in 1990 that uses CAT scans and sophisticated image processing software to automatically screen checked baggage for explosives.