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What Are TSA Backscatter or Body Imaging X-Ray Machines at Airports?

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What Are TSA Backscatter or Body Imaging X-Ray Machines at Airports?

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What Are TSA Backscatter or Body Imaging X-Ray Machines at Airports?Answer: The TSA has already installed or will be installing backscatter, or body imaging X-ray, or millimeter wave images machines at up to 30 airports (18 as of April, 2009) across the US in 2009. The body imaging, or millimeter wave imaging machines, or TSA scanners, scan a passenger on all sides and transmit the image of the passenger’s body, without clothing, to a TSA agent who will be seated 50-100 feet away from the TSA scanner. The object is to identify concealed (purposely or not) metal, plastics, ceramics, chemical materials and explosives via millimeter wave technology. The TSA scanner images produced by the body scanning will not be saved or printed, according to the TSA. As well, the TSA has this to say about p