EAST Midlands Airport will be getting full-body security scanners that can see through clothing.
It is one of nine airports earmarked to introduce the technology that produces an image that allows officials to see if travellers are concealing anything.
Full details of when the equipment will be deployed have not been released.
The move will mean that in the future, 19 UK airports will be using the scanners, able to detect non-metallic explosive devices.
Transport Secretary and Derbyshire Dales MP Patrick McLoughlin said that anyone objecting to being scanned would be able to request an private search.
Currently, anyone refusing to go through the machine is not allowed to fly.
Other airports affected by the announcement are Belfast City, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow Prestwick, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, Luton and Newcastle.
An East Midlands Airport spokesman said: "Today's announcement by the Secretary of State for Transport requires additional scanning technology, already available at ten of the UK's largest airports, to be deployed as part of the aviation security regime at East Midlands Airport.
"This equipment will provide an additional method of screening for passengers and support the existing stringent security measures already in place at East Midlands Airport. We await full details from the UK Government, which will be issued in due course."
Mr McLoughlin said the use of the special security scanners was to be extended to more UK airports as the threat level remained "substantial" with an attack "a strong possibility" .
Ten airports already have these types of scanner.
The scanners were put into use at airports including Heathrow in response to the threat to aviation posed by non-metallic improvised explosive devices, such as that used in the attack on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. In that incident, a 23-year-old Nigerian attempted to ignite an explosive device strapped to his leg by injecting a liquid into it.
Mr McLoughlin said scanners do not produce images of passengers, alleviating privacy concerns.
