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Research Article

The harmonization process to set up and maintain an operational biological and physical retrospective dosimetry network: QA QM applied to the RENEB network

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Pages 81-86 | Received 31 Mar 2016, Accepted 07 Jun 2016, Published online: 11 Aug 2016

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