New Naked Body Cavity Scanners Tested in Australian Airports Raise Radiation Concerns

Australia airports are testing naked body scanners that are powerful enough to create an image of internal cavities. Drug smugglers often use the body's vast network of plumbing to hide drugs, and the latest greatest generation of scanners will soon provide a naked scan and a colonoscopy all in a single pass at an airport. No doubt Janet Napolitano will eagerly await to see the success of this technology and then throw her billion dollar investment of naked body scanners out to make way for the naked body internal cavity scanners.

From News.com.AU:


NEW X-ray technology that can reveal drug smugglers' internal cavities will be trialled at airports under a plan to fast-track security searches.

Legislation before Federal Parliament would enable customs officers to use new body scanners instead of sending suspects to hospital for internal X-rays ordered by a doctor, reported the Herald Sun.

Federal police wasted more than 4600 hours in hospital waiting rooms last year because of drug smugglers waiting for scans.

More than 200 people were taken to hospital for internal searches, with almost 50 found to have drugs in their bodies.

So how do you increase the details of the current naked body scanners to show body cavities? Well you turn up the power of the x-ray and you increase the technology to produce more line pairs in the imaging equipment for better resolution. This of course leaves the question, how much radiation will the average flier be exposed to as this latest big brother technology will soon be used by the TSA.