Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!trevorc From: trevorc@uwovax.uwo.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Using laptops on airplanes Message-ID: <8074.2767e074@uwovax.uwo.ca> Date: 14 Dec 90 01:11:32 GMT References: <160670@kean.ucs.mun.ca> <36620@cup.portal.com> Organization: Nuclear Medicine, U. Western Ontario, Canada Lines: 17 In article , kiravuo@hila.hut.fi (Timo Kiravuo) writes: > About X-ray machines. Just keep in mind that the problem usually > is not the X-rays, but the big magnets used to control those > rays. > Oops - when did X-rays start being controlled by magnets? I think you may be confusing X-rays with magnetic resonance imaging or, perhaps, the magnetic loops used to detect ferous materials. There are no magnets in X-ray generators. -- Trevor Cradduck, | Phone: (519) 667-6574 Department of Nuclear Medicine, | FAX: (519) 667-6734 Victoria Hospital, | E-mail: University of Western Ontario, | BITNET: TREVORC@UWOVAX.BITNET LONDON, Ontario, | INTERNET: TREVORC@UWOVAX.UWO.CA Canada, N6A 4G5 | UUCP: TREVORC@RIA.UWO.CA