HDR, radiographs and Photoshop

Been getting my teeth into Photoshop CS4 recently and am very impressed with the improved High-Dynamic Range (HDR) algorithms. This set me wondering whether HDR could be useful (rather than gimmicky) for digitising radiographs. I was sent three X-rays for a medical image collection and found them extremely difficult to capture digitally, so I am now running a quick series of experiments using Photoshop's HDR function and Photomatix Pro which I use occasionally for landscape work.