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International Journal of Radiation Biology Volume 96, 2020 - Issue 5
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Uncertainty calculation methods in dose assessment for dicentric chromosome assay

J. E. GonzálezCentro de Protección e Higiene de las Radiaciones, La Habana, Cuba; Correspondence[email protected]
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J. F. BarquineroBiologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Unitat d´Antropologia, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-5268View further author information
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Bret A. HolladayDepartment of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; View further author information
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M. Di GiorgioAutoridad Regulatoria Nuclear, Buenos Aires, Argentina; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-8946-5530View further author information
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M. HiguerasDepartamento de Matemáticas y Computación, Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, SpainORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-5530-1714View further author information
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Pages 606-613 | Received 08 Jul 2019, Accepted 20 Dec 2019, Published online: 10 Feb 2020

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