Backscatter x-ray machines at airports are safe Elif Hindié, David J. Brenner, and Colin G. Orton Citation: Medical Physics 39, 4649 (2012); doi: 10.1118/1.3694116 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.3694116 View Table of Contents: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapm/journal/medphys/39/8?ver=pdfcov Published by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Articles you may be interested in X-ray induced damage in DNA monitored by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy J. Chem. Phys. 129, 065102 (2008); 10.1063/1.2961027 Radiation Damage of Protein Crystal in Various Xray Energies AIP Conf. Proc. 879, 1879 (2007); 10.1063/1.2436438 In x-ray computed tomography, technique factors should be selected appropriate to patient size Med. Phys. 28, 1543 (2001); 10.1118/1.1388903 Ultrafast structural studies on biological molecules by x-rays AIP Conf. Proc. 477, 377 (1999); 10.1063/1.59365 Predicted radiation dose and risk associated with pediatric diagnostic x-ray procedures Med. Phys. 26, 1021 (1999); 10.1118/1.598610