I think an MRI probably takes longer than the TSA scan so walk-through MRIs wouldn’t be practical.

bleepblap 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nobody or no item is getting an MRI at an airport. It's pretty common for people to conflate that with X-rays but MRIs work on a fundamentally different process and exclusively (outside of physics 101) requires liquid helium-cooled superconducting magnets to get anything useful.

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saintfire 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There are an order of magnitude less MRI scans daily than US flight passengers, however, at 1/30th the frequency.

Granted, I imagine an MRI scan still takes longer than 30 airport scans.

Interestingly the price of the body scanners and a typical MRI are in the same ballpark, from my experience and what I could glean online.

	▲	dullcrisp 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’m sure we do have a lot more MRI machines than airport scanners, right?