Research Article

The Mass Attenuation Coefficients, Electronic, Atomic, and Molecular Cross Sections, Effective Atomic Numbers, and Electron Densities for Compounds of Some Biomedically Important Elements at 59.5 keV

Table 2

The experimental mass attenuation coefficients (cm2/g), total atomic (barn/atom) and molecular (barn/atom) cross sections, effective atomic numbers, and electron densities (electrons/g) for compounds of biomedically important some elements.

Samplesμ/  ×  1023

Al0.282 ± 0.02612.638 ± 1.16512.638 ± 1.16513.029 ± 1.2012.907 ± 0.268
AlCl30.375 ± 0.01020.765 ± 0.55483.061 ± 2.21514.832 ± 0.3962.679 ± 0.071
Al(NO3)30.207 ± 0.0055.633 ± 0.13673.231 ± 1.7698.535 ± 0.2063.136 ± 0.076
Ca0.647 ± 0.01143.076 ± 0.73243.076 ± 0.73219.317 ± 0.3282.901 ± 0.049
CaF20.401 ± 0.05117.337 ± 2.20552.010 ± 6.61514.569 ± 1.8533.370 ± 0.429
CaHPO40.354 ± 0.03311.430 ± 1.06680.009 ± 7.45812.290 ± 1.1463.806 ± 0.355
CaO6C6H100.267 ± 0.0074.208 ± 0.11096.785 ± 2.5376.474 ± 0.1704.108 ± 0.108
CaSO40.429 ± 0.03516.169 ± 1.31997.017 ± 7.91515.698 ± 1.2814.165 ± 0.340
Fe1.270 ± 0.225117.823 ± 23.657117.823 ± 23.65726.839 ± 5.3892.893 ± 0.581
FeCl20.785 ± 0.04355.093 ± 3.018165.280 ± 9.05422.126 ± 2.0403.153 ± 0.291
FeCl30.689 ± 0.02446.413 ± 1.617185.652 ± 6.46720.537 ± 0.7153.049 ± 0.106
Fe2(SO4)30.485 ± 0.05618.950 ± 2.188322.154 ± 37.19715.661 ± 1.8084.008 ± 0.463
Mg(NO3)20.191 ± 0.0055.228 ± 0.13747.052 ± 1.2327.921 ± 0.2072.894 ± 0.076
MgO0.228 ± 0.0317.632 ± 1.03815.263 ± 2.07510.042 ± 1.3653.000 ± 0.408
NaO2C2H30.208 ± 0.0053.543 ± 0.08528.343 ± 0.6815.808 ± 0.1403.410 ± 0.082
Na2CO30.219 ± 0.0156.426 ± 0.44038.558 ± 2.6419.450 ± 0.6473.221 ± 0.221
NaF0.210 ± 0.0407.324 ± 1.39514.648 ± 2.7909.897 ± 1.8852.838 ± 0.541
NaNO30.189 ± 0.0115.337 ± 0.31126.683 ± 1.5538.086 ± 0.4712.864 ± 0.167
Na2SO30.287 ± 0.02010.015 ± 0.69860.089 ± 4.18712.364 ± 0.8623.543 ± 0.247
Na2SO40.237 ± 0.0239.202 ± 0.77564.413 ± 5.42711.648 ± 0.9813.456 ± 0.291
NaCl0.343 ± 0.02616.649 ± 1.26233.297 ± 2.52414.230 ± 1.0792.932 ± 0.222