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Original Article

A Generalized Formulation of the ‘Incomplete-repair’ Model for Cell Survival and Tissue Response to Fractionated Low Dose-rate Irradiation

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Pages 127-142 | Received 12 May 1989, Accepted 25 Jul 1989, Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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