As it turns out, most radiation treatments are perfomed with high energy X rays , from a linear accelerator. Only cobalt machines (aprox 5000 Ci of 60 Co) use gamma rays..The cobalt machine predated modern linear accelerators 60Co has gamma photons that average 1.25 MeV Modern Linear accelerators produce Xrays that are higher energies, and thus more penetrating
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As it turns out, most radiation treatments
are perfomed with high energy X rays , from
a linear accelerator.
Only cobalt machines (aprox 5000 Ci of 60 Co)
use gamma rays..The cobalt machine predated modern linear accelerators
60Co has gamma photons that average 1.25 MeV
Modern Linear accelerators produce Xrays that are
higher energies, and thus more penetrating