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Syllabus section D1.7 Nuclear Medicine: energy of radioactive emissions

keV and MeV as measures of the energy of emitted radiations.

 

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Alpha - Typical Energy = 4 - 8 MeV;
Beta - Typical Energy = several KeV to 5 MeV
Gamma - energies range from tens of keV up to a few Mev.   TOP