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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 7.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2017 Jan 31;62(5):1935–1948. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa5bc7

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Dose per incident x-ray in standard brachytherapy treatment (Blue) compared with the AuNP aided Brachytherapy treatment (Magenta) for a) uniform 30mg/g AuNP concentration, b) when brachytherapy needles (and so 125I seeds) are centered in the region with high AuNP concentration (Center region), with cCenter=66mg/g, cGradient=33mg/g, cTail=10mg/g; c) when the 125I seeds are in the Tail of the AuNP concentration, with cCenter=64.6mg/g, cGradient=32.3mg/g, cTail=10mg/g. Dose ratios between the two treatments are given on the top of the columns.