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    Anthony Wallace M.Sc., M.App.Sc. (Radiology Special Interest Group Chairman, Principal Medical Physicist)

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Wallace, A. Radiology physics — where to now…?. Australas. Phys. Eng. Sci. Med. 30, xiv–xvii (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03178421

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