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Kubota, H., Ozaki, Y., Matsumoto, M. et al. Experimental separation of diagnostic X-ray spectra into scatter and primary components. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 32, 468–472 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02524705
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