If the rays hit the bone then reflect off, would they not travel at a diagonal and not directly back at the machine to make such an image?
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Why would they travel diagonally if the machine is right on top of you? The xrays come straight down and reflect off to the side instead of back to where they came from? If that was the case you wouldn’t even be able to take a regular photograph with your camera.
And that’s not even how xrays work anyways. Think of the xray as a lamp. You’re put in front of the machine and they shine an Xray light on you. Behind you is a piece of film, that catches the light, the xrays, and turns black. The image you’re left with is you “shadow” when shone with xrays, where some of them go through you but some of them never reach the film, giving you an image on the film of your insides. It’s like shining a light on a transparent bottle with an object inside, against a wall. On the wall you won’t really see a shadow from the bottle because it’s transparent, but you will see the shadow of the object. In this case the object is your bones, through which xrays don’t pass through, and the bottle is your skin and soft tissue, most of which the xrays do pass through.
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