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Total attenuation cross sections for several sugars are measured for 661.6-, 1173-, and 1332.5-keV photons in a narrow beam geometry setup, by using a hyperpure germanium detector. These values are compared with the values calculated by using the mixture rule based on Hubbell’s data for the individual elements and are found to be in good agreement. Based on the measured values for different sugars, a set of mean mass attenuation coefficients for sugars is given for the energies of interest.
