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Major US airport switches to whole-body scanners for security screening

JUN 09, 2010
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Baltimore Sun : This week whole-body x-ray scanners that can see through clothing will become the primary passenger screening technology at Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, the 24th busiest in the US by passenger throughput. Previously, the whole-body scanners, which rely on back-scattered x rays, were used at BWI as a backup system.
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