The new “strip search” scanning machines at airport security checkpoints are increasingly causing furor over issues of privacy, decency and health. Over the weekend, a passenger in San Diego, software ...

The EOS scanner delivers one-tenth of the normal radiation dose of an X-ray. The clarity of the EOS films also is better than a standard X-ray, said John Thometz, medical director of orthopedic ...

Before they were removed following an outcry over privacy, backscatter X-ray security scanners at airports also raised worries among some travelers and scientists about exposure to potentially harmful ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul Hsieh, M.D., covers healthcare economics, innovation, and policy. Radiologists have fielded numerous questions in recent ...

There's nothing as simultaneously reassuring and infuriating as modern airport security. Anyone who's done even a little traveling knows the feeling of arriving at the airport only to be greeted by a ...

COLUMBIA - A radiology clinic in Columbia said it has a machine that can reduce radiation from computed tomography (CT) scans up to 50 percent."When you bring your child in, you'd like it to be as ...

(USA TODAY) -- Controversial full-body X-ray scanners at U.S. airports underwent more than 700 inspections last year with all tests showing radiation levels below standards used by their manufacturer ...

A new computerized tomography (CT) scanner is providing patients at Samaritan Albany General Hospital higher quality images, speedier sessions and most importantly lower doses of radiation. The ...

The New York Police Department this week unveiled new radiation scanners capable of identifying concealed weapons from a distance. As the New York Daily News reports, the scanners are small enough to ...

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