The diagnosis of soft tissues is commonly a highly required but complicated task due to low contrast and high distortion of soft tissue radiographs. An important source of radiograph distortion arises from beam hardening effects. When left uncorrected, distortion blurs low contrast radiograph parts. The use of a cooled digital X-ray semiconductor detector together with the proposed beam hardening correction procedure brings high dynamic range and very low noise of the acquired radiographs over the entire X ray tube spectrum. Both soft and hard parts of the object appear with abundant contrast and spatial resolution in the resulting radiographs.