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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Phys. 2011 Mar 1;100(3):313–317. doi: 10.1097/HP.0b013e31820ef10a

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Comparison of the highly localized energy deposition in the immediate vicincity of the decay site of several Auger electron emitters with the energy density along the track of a 5.3 MeV alpha particle. Dots represent the initial positions of the reactive chemical species produced by the radiolysis of liquid water (e.g. OH·, H·, e−aq, etc.). The Auger electron emitters are located at the midpoint on the surface of a hypothetical cylindrical DNA segment. This figure is reproduced from Ref. (Wright et al. 1990).