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Iodine can be used radiographic contrast b/c iodine

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has a k-edge just below the average energy of a diagnostic x-ray beam.

At energies just beyond the k-edge (the binding energy of an electron shell), the likelihood of photoelectric interaction substantially increases due to additional electrons being accessible.

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