Cover Image: A common scene at a fictional airport employing passenger screening using a backscatter X-ray machine. Artist: Erik Svedberg. Image created by ray tracing, where computational rays of ...

Although the machines have already been pulled from U.S. airports, the results of a report commissioned by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has found that the amount of ...

There's nothing as simultaneously reassuring and infuriating as modern airport security. Anyone who's done even a little traveling knows the feeling of arriving at the airport only to be greeted by a ...

CHICAGO — Just in time for holiday travel, Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is receiving a new type of body scanner that should help speed up the lines at security checkpoints and that displays ...

Airport X-ray machines are exempt from the state radiation control inspections they would receive if installed at a local courthouse or in a non-federal office building. The U.S. Food and Drug ...

Every frequent flyer has a version of the same story. You shuffle forward in the security line, shoes off, laptop out, jacket ...

ASU students flying home for the holidays might receive a small gift from airport security — radiation. An ASU professor is concerned that a new type of X-ray scanner at airports could be dangerous to ...

HaiLa Technologies Inc. announced the availability of the BSC2000 backscatter chip and RF evaluation chip development and demonstration kits. Collaborating with Presto Engineering, the companies ...

Backscatter communication systems utilise the reflection and modulation of pre‐existing radio frequency signals to enable ultra‐low-power, sustainable wireless links. This technique is emerging as a ...