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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

In response to the comments to the paper ‘Modelling of cell killing due to sparsely ionizing radiation in normoxic and hypoxic conditions and an extension to high LET radiation’ by T. Friedrich et al.

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Pages 129-131 | Received 31 Mar 2014, Published online: 07 Nov 2014

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