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Monte Carlo radiation transport simulations were performed to compute electron SAFs for 70 maternal source regions and 55 foetal target organs across 20 energies (10 keV\u201310 MeV). The results revealed a strong dependence of foetal SAFs on maternal\u2013foetal geometry, with adjacent maternal organs (e.g. amniotic fluid, urinary bladder wall) producing markedly higher SAFs than distant sources. Organ-specific analyses showed large variability among foetal targets, particularly for electrons, underscoring the need for organ-level rather than total-body dose estimation. Comparisons with previous datasets based on simplified phantoms demonstrated that anatomical realism and gestation-specific modelling substantially influence dose transfer predictions. 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