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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine Volume 2012, Article ID 651475, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2012/651475 Research Article Atomic Radiations in the Decay of Medical Radioisotopes: A Physics Perspective ´ B. Q. Lee, T. Kibedi, A. E. Stuchbery, and K. A. Robertson Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia ´ Correspondence should be addressed to T. Kibedi, tibor.kibedi@.au Received 21 March 2012; Revised 17 May 2012; Accepted 17 May 2012 Academic Editor: Eva Bezak Copyright © 2012 B. Q. Lee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Auger electrons emitted in nuclear decay offer a unique tool to treat cancer cells at the scale of a DNA molecule. Over the last forty years many aspects of this promising research goal have been explored, however it is still not in the phase of serious clinical trials. In this paper, we review the physical processes of Auger emission in nuclear decay and present a new model being developed to evaluate the energy spectrum of Auger electrons, and hence overcome the limitations of existing computations. 1. Introduction the vacancy will be filled by an electron from the outer shells and the excess energy will be released as an X-ray Unstable atomic nuclei release excess energy through various photon, or by