Abstract

The use of ionizing radiation for non-medical human imaging and security purposes has gradually increased in the last ten years. Examples of non-medical human imaging include weapons or drug search, age determination, sport medicine, vehicle inspection, immigration, and pre-employment assessment. The regulatory concern is that such planned exposure would give rise to public dose without any medical benefits to the individual and is likely to be conducted without explicit consent. This talk sheds some light on the different types of non-medical human imaging and the associated safety and regulations requirements. The benefits and determines from such exposures to both individual and society must be considered. The radiation safety of these techniques may have been strictly implemented, the justification and ethics are however still challenging. Therefore, both awareness of the circumstances of each situation/application and the considerations of the economic and social factors are critical to enable us to judge the appropriateness of our ethical judgement or decision.