X-ray photograph

A distinctive kind of photograph or picture produced by the employment of electromagnetic rays in an instrumentality directed to the human body, constituting, under interpretation by an expert, a reliable representation of bones, foreign substances lodged in the body, or the condition of tissues of the body. 29 Am J2d Ev § 799. X-ray photographs, properly identified, authenticated and explained in detail by doctors testifying in behalf of the respective parties, and exhibited to and examined in detail by the jury during the trial, are, irrespective of the jury's ability to understand such photographs, within the operation of a statute which permits a jury to take with it to the jury room “any written evidence.” Texas Employers' Ins. Asso. v Crow, 148 Tex 113, 221 SW2d 235, 10 ALR2d 913.