Establishment of local diagnostic reference levels for breast cancer CT protocols in radiotherapy in a single Moroccan center

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Issue		Radioprotection Volume 59, Number 1, January - March


Page(s)		50 - 54
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2023047
Published online		15 March 2024

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