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Table 3.

Comparison of dose rate constant for different commercially available radioactive seeds

Authors	¹²⁵I seed	Material of marker	Length of marker (cm)	Dose rate constant, ( $c G y \cdot h^{- 1} \cdot U^{- 1}$ )	Differences between the dose rate constants (%)
Popescu et al	PharmaSeed BT‐125‐1	Molybdenum rod	0.325	0.950	0.94
DeMarco et al	PharmaSeed BT‐125‐2	Silver rod	0.325	0.967	0.83
TG43U1	6711	Silver rod	0.300	0.965	0.62
This study	GMS BT‐125‐1	Silver rod	0.325	0.959	0