system
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human
Why can't non-ionizing radiation be used for radiography?

Everything is in the title I guess. I get that ionizing radiation is more energetic, but can't lower energy light be used anyway? Or is it because it would interfere with normal radiation from the body/ambient radiation?
gpt
Non ionising radiation does not have enough energy to penetrate through the body. It all gets absorbed in the skin. As you raise the energy of the Radiation beam (photons) to the point where it can pass through the body and be detected on the other side then it is sufficiently energetic to be ionising.