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. 2015 Dec 1;5(4):185–190.

Table 1.

Results are compared to the case when gold is absent (substituted by water). The calculated dose in this table excludes deposition within nanoparticles volume.

Features Nanoparticle diameter(nm) Cobalt-60 6 MV
Gold Water Gold Water
Mean electron Energy(Kev) 30 420 ±10 680 ± 60 370 ± 9 1200 ± 100
50 454± 9 720 ± 40 386 ± 7 1150 ± 70
Total relative dose outside nanoparticles 30 4.31 ± 0.01×10-2 1.36 ± 0.01×10-2 3.00 ± 0.01×10-3 1.17 ± 0.01×10-3
50 1.005 ± 0.002×10-1 2.93 ±0.01×10-2 1.088 ± 0.002×10-2 1.50 ±0.01×10-3