Quality management and certified medical physicist’s role in radiology for radiation dose optimisation: a literature review until 2024

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Issue		Radioprotection Volume 60, Number 1, January-March 2025


Page(s)		9 - 19
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2024024
Published online		14 March 2025

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