X-ray radiography is based on Beer-Lambert's law, which calculates, along a given X-ray path within matter, the ratio between the number of transmitted photons N and the number of incident photons N0. As the expression (1) shows, this number depends on the absorption (or linear attenuation) coefficient µ (in m-1) of the material along the path s.
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