This device briefly converts a person to energy, beams the energy, then reassembles the person
Transporters convert a person or object into an energy pattern (a process called 
dematerialization), then "beam" it to a target .... Starfleet transporters from the 
TNG era onward include a device that can detect and disable an active weapon (
TNG:... [DOC] [TLE] U.S. Air Force Study On Teleportation [PAR] Teleportation  psychic: the conveyance of persons or inanimate objects by 
psychic means.