Comments on: Hand Held X-ray Devices on The Horizon As Engineers Develop Compact Sources of Radiation Emitting Scanners

By: abinico warez

abinico warez — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:51:51 +0000

If it’s harmless, let’s turn these on and make the inventors wear them around their necks 24 by 7.

By: Fred Milton Olsen

Fred Milton Olsen — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:37:00 +0000

On 14 December in Portland, OR, I had some dental X-Rays at Green Apple Dental. The dental tech used a hand-held pistol shaped X-Ray machine which was used with the usual uncomfortable in-mouth frames and films. It did not have a cord, so I’m assuming it uses rechargeable batteries.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:20:55 +0000

Every day I use a handheld XRF (x ray frequency) analyzer to assay scrap gold and even crushed up catalytic converters. As a student of science, I was in fact worried about the x ray exposure from using the device, and actually convinced my employer to pay for an array of dosimeters (actually seven units connected to a pc) to monitor my exposure. After more than a year of using it, my dosimeters have yet to indicate ANY exposure beyond “background”.

That’s not to say that such a unit in ignorant hands would not be any different to a moron holding a handgun…