Sentences with phrase «of body scanners»

The proposed implementation of body scanners in Canadian airports is a major exception to this and I've been delighted to see some real discussion about this very intrusive technology.

If a significant number of passengers decide to opt out of the body scanners and submit to pat - downs, this could cause long delays in the security lines.

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Manchester Airport will be providing passengers travelling through the terminals with detailed information about the introduction of body scanners.

At the airport, the next generation of body scanners may rely on terahertz radiation, or T - rays.

The fate of a bill allowing the use of body scanners at Rikers Island jail is now uncertain, with the Democratic - led Assembly deeply divided on the issue.

The move follows a successful trial of a body scanner in Terminal 2 that began in October 2009 and which became a compulsory part of secondary security screening in February 2010.

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They use a scanner to create images of various areas of a patient's body.

But unlike other 3D scanning technologies, which usually involves a full body scan and require a trip to a studio at a cost of some $ 500, the Luna Scanner can be installed almost anywhere.

There, it's using some of the most advanced tactics around to manufacture its clothing: a machine that automatically cuts sheets of fabric so as to produce the least amount of waste possible; 3 - D body scanners that let it create customized clothing for top athletes.

The online retail giant is inviting people to New York to measure them with a 3 - D body scanner

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Laura Stevens

Amazon.com Inc. wants to understand one of the more intimate things about you: body size.

The Department of Homeland Security, ever the least controversial branch of the US Government, is developing a new laser - based scanner that can scan targets at a molecular level to read what they had for breakfast, how much adrenaline is pumping through their body and whether you they have any trace amounts of drugs or gunpowder on them.

Katko aggressively questioned Larry Mizell, a representative of the Transportation Security Administration, who declined to say in public whether Cuban airports have explosive trace equipment, body scanners and document verification technology to help thwart potential terrorists.

The security scanners are also out of order, a situation that has resulted in security personnel at the entrances conducting manual body searches.

The paper also reported that security scanners are also out of order, a situation that has resulted in security personnel at the entrances conducting manual body searches.

Fortunately for Goitein and Suit, such technology was emerging: computed axial tomography (CAT) scanners, which could produce cross-sectional images, or «slices,» of the inside of the body.

Perhaps the best known patents are those for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-- widely used in body scanners — which are managed by the BTG for the University of Nottingham.

Vegans, «apples» and babies are being turned inside out by scanners that are revolutionising the study of body fat

The technique of using sodium ions in the body as a biomarker for imaging is very challenging because of the lower detectability of the sodium signal in biological tissue by currently available MRI scanners.

The scintigraphy aspect of the scanner is composed of a gamma camera that detects tiny radioactive signals emitted from the body after injection of a radionuclide, which interacts with specific physiological functions of the body, so that nuclear medicine physicians and their colleagues can extrapolate information from the radionuclide's activity.

The research team has been using NMR — a technique related to the one used in MRI body scanners and capable of visualising molecules at the smallest scales — to examine how small components of herpes virus help it to multiply by binding themselves with other large molecules; this produced images of a monkey herpes virus protein interacting with mouse cellular protein and viral RNA.

According to a spokesman for the UK Department for Transport, body - scanner approvals will be on the agenda at a meeting of the European Commission's aviation security committee on 7 January, at which responses to the failed attack will be considered.

In the aftermath of the incident aboard a US - bound airliner on Christmas day in which a passenger attempted to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear, governments are rushing to install full - body scanners at airports to thwart similar attacks.

So says Colin McSeveny, a spokesman for Smiths Detection of Watford, UK, which makes millimetre - wave body scanners.

RISK - FREE: The makers of scanners claim that the amount of energy imposed on the human body poses no health risk to travelers.

While few of us routinely encounter 3 - D body scanners in our daily lives, some anticipate that the technology's ability to provide precise measurements and imaging will soon lead to its integration into retail and exercise environments.

The scintigraphy aspect of the scanner is comprised of a gamma camera that detects tiny radioactive signals emitted from the body after injection of a radionuclide, which interacts with specific physiological functions of the body, so that nuclear medicine physicians and their colleagues can extrapolate information from the radionuclide's activity.

Body scanners and virtual fitting rooms could solve the common problem of clothes ordered online being too baggy or tight

Whitespace came into play as Lululemon used the body scanner to customize garments to each individual and infrared motion standards to inform the design of the new inner stabilizer to reduce breast movement.

Among other benefits, I consider yoga as an internal body scanner or self healing doctor that identifies what part (s) of my body need attention.

Dr. Greger, what is your opinion of the full body scanners at airports?

However, putting 25 people in a CT scanner eight times is probably not inexpensive and perhaps they sort of hedged their bets by studying an upper and a lower body intervention.

Bayer has also launched the Inspiration Space, a high - tech interactive exhibition; through the latest motion sensor, touch technology, and body scanners, students will understand what constitutes sustainable food and provide informative insight into the complexity of the human body in relation to maintaining a healthy heart, skin and wound care.

Then there is medical physics where you could be working with radioactive medicines or taking images of the body with CT, MRI and PET scanners.

It is comprised of a number of different functions, including the road surface scanner and active body control system already available on the S63 AMG sedan.

The SO - CAL team took advantage of the SEMA Garage FaroArm laser scanner to capture the exact curvature of the ’34 Ford's sleek body panels to quickly fabricate a new custom trim piece.

To at least one woman who experienced the new policy, «The scrutiny of my books, magazines and food feels even more invasive» than the body scanners, swabs, and pat - downs.»

An image of a body made with a handheld scanner, enormous, distorted, as luminous as a Caravaggio painting.

The LeEco Le 2 also features a combination of metal body and a fingerprint scanner at the back.

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Using a CT scanner, high resolution images of the body can be acquired in seconds, resulting in 3 - D images of complex anatomy such as the lungs, nasal cavities and joints.

The CT scanner at Veterinary Specialists of Greater New Orleans is an intricately - detailed imaging system that rotates around the patient, while continually projecting a thin fan of x-rays through the body to create cross-sectional images of the body.

The microchip can be «read» with a microchip scanner, which detects the specific «electronic code embedded in the chip, and displays the identification number on the scanner's screen Since the occasional microchip may migrate, or move out of position, the microchip reader will be passed over the entire body of the pet in order to ensure that the chip will be detected if present.

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In line with Government policy, these include a feature which automatically processes images of passengers using a system that eliminates the need for an airport security officer to view the ghost - like body outlines that made the airport's body scanners famous.

Manchester Airport has confirmed today that its trial of «naked» body scanners will end in October when testing will also begin on a new generation of privacy friendly security scanners.

«We're baffled by this situation because health experts say they are safe plus the overwhelming majority of our passengers and security staff prefer body scanners to frisking and it's frustrating that Brussels has allowed this successful trial to end», said Andrew Harrison, Chief Operating Officer at MAG, Manchester Airport's parent company.

Manchester Airport's Terminal 2 will become the first in Europe to replace hand searching with body scanners as part of the security process after airport bosses secured a unique agreement from the European Commission.

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Kristen Spencer: Microsoft's Project Natal definitely presented the most inventive, innovative motion capture technology seen to date, with its controller-less combination of facial and voice recognition, body tracking and object scanner.