Earliest full-body scanner tested
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Worried about the potential health risks associated with airport full-body scanners? Well you might rest at little easier in the knowledge that modern day x-ray machines are 1,500 times safer than the earliest known body scanner, which was put through its paces in the Netherlands recently. According to a report in the medical journal Radiology, reported by the BBC, the machine, which dates back to 1895, actually produces clear images of a similar quality to modern day x-ray machines. The levels of radiation it produced however, were significantly higher.
Conjuring images from movies such as Frankenstein, the scientists said the machine “had a buzzing interruptor, crackling lightning within a spark gap, and a greenish light flashing in a tube”
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