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Whole Body Scanners

Retreived 12/7/09 from sceneadvisor.com

Get ready to show your stuff. Travelers will soon find that checking through security will be a revealing experience with the rollout of whole body image scanners that can see beneath clothing. These scanners will be installed for added security, replacing traditional x-ray ma- chines. You might think these machines sound like something out of a SciFi movie, but they’re very real and very current. A whole body image scan is simple: you enter a booth and your body is scanned. In another room, a full image of your body is shown to the security force. The airport security force can easily see what they refer to as metallic and non-metallic threats. The machines are now at certain airports for test periods, and then you can expect them to become more of a standard at airports. For now the process is optional – you can choose to be patted down.