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Explain how X-ray images depend on differential absorption.
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X-ray imaging
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Image detection and enhancement
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Explain how X-ray images depend on differential absorption
- This point belongs to X-ray imaging, especially Image detection and enhancement.
- You need to be able to explain how X-ray images depend on differential absorption.
- The key ideas to know are depend, images, and differential.
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dependimagesdifferentialx-rayabsorption
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