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Home All issues Volume 60 / No 1 (January-March 2025) Radioprotection, 60 1 (2025) 37-43 References
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Radioprotection
Volume 60, Number 1, January-March 2025
Page(s) 37 - 43
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2024033
Published online 14 March 2025
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