Joe Wilensky wrote: > > I've heard that in many cases, if they see a lead-lined bag, they > just turn up the power of the (new and more powerful) x-ray scanner > to see through it, which then subjects the film to more radiation > than it would have seen if it had gone through without a bag. Is this > true?
It is the CT5000 scanner for checked in luggage that does that. The ones that people and carry on luggage go through are much less powerful. I believe that a CT5000 on full power could harm a person if they were scanned with it at full power, though I could be wrong on that. BUTCH Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hess (Demian)
