Sentence examples for millimeter wave scanning from inspiring English sources
In the airport full body scanning sector [Smiths] has an offering in the Millimeter wave scanning technology, as does market number three L-3.
There are two types of technology for full body imaging: Backscatter X-Ray and Millimeter wave scanning.
Most major airports now use the millimeter-wave scanning booths — you know, the ones where you stand still with your arms in the air like you're being mugged.
The T.S.A. says it had also bought 242 other body scan machines that use millimeter wave technology, which doesn't emit radiation but uses "harmless radio waves," according to its manufacturer, L-3 Security and Detection Systems.
In place of the X-ray backscatter scanners, and in a move sure to cost taxpayers even more money, the TSA is going to replace them with millimeter wave scanners (millimeter scanners only take about 10 seconds to scan, versus a full minute for backscatter scanners).
The agency has added software privacy filters to all of the millimeter wave scanners so screeners see only an outline of the passenger being scanned — not the more graphic body image the machines originally produced.
In order to detect the horizontal angle, a mechanical scan system is used, in which the antenna and millimeter wave transmitter/receiver are panned back and forth to the right and left sides by a motor.
The proposed left-handed metamaterial (LHM) lens based on SRR and coupling effects can be designed by scanning the focal point of flat LHM lens in the region under detection and screening directly the field intensity distribution of backscattered millimeter wave refocused by the flat LHM lens.
But for now, the agency is committed to the backscatters and millimeter wave machines.
The T.S.A. assures us that neither the X-ray scanners nor the millimeter wave machines pose a health risk.
The "millimeter wave" machines, which are considered less risky because they do not use X-rays, bounce electromagnetic waves off the body to produce a similar image.
