Posts Tagged ‘body’
I have been diagnosed with graves disease related to my thyroid. My endocrynologist wants me to take a radioactive pill and body scan to destroy my thyroid next week. He will then have me on thyroid medicine the rest of my life with periodic blood tests. Has anyone out there experienced this procedure? If so, please discuss it with me.
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So this all started last year, but TSA is really starting to use these scanners now. Basically, they pick people out of the airport security line “at random” and let them choose between going through the body scan (which takes like a minute) or submit to a pat down. You are not taken to a private room for this, it’s done right by the metal detectors. TSA agents view the images and TSA claims all images are immediately deleted after they are viewed.
I feel that there’s a lot of leeway here for misuse. Who is to say the TSA agent calling people out of line isn’t a pervert/pedophile/whatever choosing people who he/she finds attactive or especially ugly or fat? And are there multiple TSA agents sitting there with popcorn chuckling at these people’s naked bodies?
Personally, I think that if there wasn’t such outrage in the beginning, TSA would consider making this body scan mandatory for all travellers. After all, it’s been designed to take less than a minute.
So the questions:
Do you think it’s an invasion of privacy?
Which would you choose, the body scan or the pat down?
If the body scan were made mandatory at some airports, would you go out of your way to avoid those airports? Say there’s another airport an hour away, would you drive to that one instead?
Any other comments?
You can see the body scan images here:
http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2008/05/you-asked-for-ityou-got-it-millimeter.html
Hopefully somewhere within the Danbury,CT area.
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I’m talking about food , natural herbs or any kind of products that have been proved of which can reduce radiations human body absorbed from a radiation scan like CT , xray , etc .
Any suggestions ?
Is it an invasion of privacy?
Would you try to buy a picture of your favorite celebrity in the x-ray buff?
Was that too many questions lumped into one?
How does a medical Dr. really know too much is too much radiation! But they still need to do more test.
As a MRI Technologist with 15 years experience in diagnostic imaging, I can assure you beyond a reasonable doubt that the “body scan” machines will be virtually useless in detecting explosives.
Let me explain why. The macines use radio frequency “millimeter waves” to detect what’s hiding under your clothing. It is very similar to radar in that it bounces a pulse of rf at a 3d target and then a computer compiles the data into a 3d image that you can “see”. The reason it won’t work is because it only does a surface rendering of the object. Thus, if a pliable explosive were used and molded to the body or placed in a skin fold the scanner would never see it. Theoretically, you could smuggle literally POUNDS of high explosives through one of these gadgets without notice. What “will” work? Xrays in the form of a tomographic scanner. But that’s not going to happen because of the radiation dose and the cost. So, who benefits from body scanners? ahem….. General Electric and their ilk.
Take it or leave it. That’s the stone cold truth boys and girls.
Source(s):
http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2008/05/which-is-it-millimeter-wave-or.html
Truthseeker, I’ll have to disagree with you on two points. First, backscatter machines like millimeter waves only offer a surface rendering. If you want to have contrast of density then you must use higer doses. Secondly, the dose in minute? How minute? How much exactly is “safe”? Perhaps you should google the Linear Non-Threshold Dose response relationship involving xrays. There is no “safe” dose.
US ambassador in UK ensures no body scan for Pak foreign minister
US envoy to UK Louis B Susman drove four hours to Manchester to ensure that a zealous American airline security does not body scan Pak foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi ahead of his arrival in Washington.
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