Table 2.

The mean number of electrons\positrons originated from the interactions with AuNPs and the total energy of the produced electrons\positrons per a million photons getting to a nanoparticle for the therapeutic beams from Clinac 2300.

	6 MV beam	18 MV beam
Mean number of electrons per 106 photons	3.8	0.9
Total energy of secondary electrons per 106 photons	9.7 × 10−14 J	19.1 × 10−14 J
Mean number of positrons per 106 photons	0.05	0.12
Total energy of positrons per 106 photons	0.6 × 10−14 J	8.0 × 10−14 J