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Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2012 Jan 18;57(3):771–783. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/3/771

Table 1.

Number of Cerenkov Photons generated for 100,000 decays of the given isotope. Displayed values are mean and standard deviation taken from 5 simulations of 100,000 events.

²²⁵Ac Decay Chain		²³⁰U Decay Chain		²¹¹At Decay Chain
²²⁵Ac	57.4±20.6	²³⁰U	3.2±7.2	²¹¹At	125.8±19.3
²²¹Fr	13.2±5.6	²²⁶Th	2.8±4.1	²¹¹Po	870.2±85.5
²¹⁷At	28.0±23.5	²²²Ra	17.6±19.9	²⁰⁷Bi	583,482.0±6902.1
²¹⁷Rn	0±0	²¹⁸Rn	24.8±8.2	²¹²Bi Decay Chain
²¹³Bi^*	1,107,725.8±1889.3	²¹⁴Po	5.0±7.1
²⁰⁹Tl	3,616,482.4±7763.8	²¹⁰Pb	0±0	²¹²Bi	2,430,437.2±7403.2
²¹³Po	0±0	²¹⁰Bi	816,719.4±6327.1	²⁰⁸Tl	3,475,761.0±11,864.1
²⁰⁹Pb	83,270.4±529.6	²¹⁰Po	0±0	²¹²Po	9.6±19.9

²¹³Bi and below are also the ²¹³Bi decay chain.