Originally Posted by
SATTSO
Something curious about the whole body imagers: as I have said I have not worked one, but when talking to others who haved, something came up. I am not a "computer" guy, yeah they are useful, great to get email and check movie times and I even buy stuff online, but that's the extent of it. So I have a question fir those who might know better.
When talking to some TSOs about image resolution, what you can see about the body on the whole body imager, the response I have gotten is that you can't see much, that it's hard to make things out. So, what how would using a low or mid quality monitor effect the POSSIBLE resolution of these machines? (I can tell you the monitors on our x-ray machines, except the AT x-rays, are sort of bad)
I asked one TSO specifically if you could see the private parts on the whole body imager, and his response was only if you looked really, really hard (sorry guys). Any ways just wondering.
The imager has contrast, brightness and a few other "enhancement" controls that allow the operator to monkey with the image to get the best view. The images that CNN released that came from a unit in the field you could tell that the man was circumcised as well as the length and girth of his penis.
I think the TSO told you that to reduce the "creep" factor.