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Exposure to radiation and to electric and magnetic fields
associated with passenger screening devices are not expected to
cause adverse health effects in passengers. Radiation levels
used by the technologies under consideration in this report are
far below the levels that have been linked to health effects.
The level of ionizing radiation1 in passenger screening
technologies is compared to the levels of exposure to ionizing
radiation from other sources in figure 6-1. Low-energy
electromagnetic radiation includes radio waves, microwaves,
radar, and power-frequency radiation from electric