Natural radioactivity measurements and external dose estimation by car-borne survey in Douala city, Cameroon

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Numéro		Radioprotection Volume 53, Numéro 4, October-December 2018


Page(s)		255 - 263
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2018032
Publié en ligne		12 novembre 2018

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