Risk of cancer due to radiation effects associated with one type of scanner (scanner) airport security, according to the researchers, is low. Especially during this scanner was operated and functioning accordingly."The dose is low, very low," said Rebecca Smith-Bindman, professor of radiology at the University of California, San Francisco. He concluded, after making calculations with Pratik Mehta, who is also graduate of the University of California .. "Levels of radiation in this tool is so low that you do not have to worry about it."
They said, "The amount of radiation absorbed in a single scan more or less the same as what is absorbed person every 3-9 minutes from the regular environment. The human body naturally absorbs radiation over time from sources such as sun and soil. In their analysis, Smith-Bindman and Mehta also mentioned that the average person will absorb radiation 100 times higher when flying on an airplane rather than inside the scanner.
This analysis appears in a special article published online in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine in March 2011.