Originally Posted by
homeward_bound235
So in my mind there are two objections to the NoS. One is privacy and the other is safety (radiation).
Actually there are three. Unfortunately, the third is often forgotten about. Yet it is the MOST important, EFFICACY !!! Without (which IMHO there is none) it the other two are moot.
Originally Posted by
homeward_bound235
We use ultrasonics to see into the human body and consider it safe enough for a fetus. Can this technology be adapted to an airport scan? It would completely eliminate one of the objections to the body scanning, and could in theory find "buried" objects or be used to clear WTMD alarms.
Ultrasound requires skin contact. Further, to get good contact it requires lube. That said to get useful images it requires proficiency. That is not going to happen with the current crop of screeners. Which is why so much of the current technology is automated because of the lowest denominator of the TSO hired.