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Research Article

Collective dosimetry to distinguish occupational exposure to natural uranium from alimentary uranium background in bioassay measurements

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Pages 1048-1054 | Received 10 Oct 2013, Accepted 08 May 2014, Published online: 11 Aug 2014

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