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For a narrow, well-collimated photon beam, scattered photons are rejected and the uncollided intensity obeys the Beer-Lambert law, $I(x)=I(0)e^{-\mu x}$. With water mass density $\rho \simeq 1\mathrm{g}\mathrm{c}{\mathrm{m}}^{-3}$, the linear attenuation coefficient is $\mu =\rho (\mu /\rho )$. The half-value layer is thereforeThus the annihilation photons associated with the fluorine-18 source require about $1.60$ times as much water for the same attenuation as the technetium-99m photons. The $511\mathrm{keV}$ here is the annihilation photon energy, not the variable kinetic energy of an emitted Positron. A broad-beam measurement admitting scattered photons would require a buildup correction and would not have this simple transmission interpretation.^[ref]