By Calvin Biesecker New research by a professor and student at the Univ. of California-San Francisco (UCSF) and the Univ. of California-Berkeley respectively suggests that the risks of people getting cancer by going through backscatter X-ray-based whole body imagers at the nation's airports is so low that there is no reason for concern. The radiation doses the machines subject a person to "are low--extremely low," Rebecca Smith-Bindman, M.D., a professor of radiology at UCSF, said in a statement this week.…
California Univ. Researchers See Little Cancer Risk From Backscatter AIT Systems
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