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Posted by 1000243 on 05 Dec 2014 at 09:32 GMT

Dear readers, during the production of the definitive article some errors, not present in the original files, have been produced. Because the correction process can be slow, please take into account the following items:
1.- In page 5, line 8 from the bottom, there are 2 mistakes in the equations where the SE is missing. The original equations were: Yo-1.96·SE(Yo)=...... and Yo+1.96·SE(Yo)=.......
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2.- Table 2 has numerous errors that makes data uninterpretable.
The title “Dicentrics distribution among cells” should embrace the columns with headers from 0 to 15. Now it is positioned only on column 0, making this column to wide and all the others too thin. In these columns the majority of values are unreadable, i.e. values like a 12 (0.1 Gy and column with header “1”) are divided into two rows the 1 in the upper and the 2 in the lower row.
Moreover, a new header cell was created between headers 12 and 13. This displaced the values to columns with wrong headers. i.e. the real values of “Total Dic” are in the column with “>15”, and then successively for the columns at the right part of the table.
3.- In table 3 the beta 3 value is: β3=1.0623
4.- In table 4, for dose of 2 and 17 Gy only a 100% of irradiated blood was analyzed. However, for 6 and 12 Gy doses, we analyzed samples of 30%, 70% and 100% of irradiated blood. To clarify the correspondence of this data, the 6 and 12 Gy values of the first column should be moved up one cell.

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