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Acknowledgments: We are grateful to Isabelle Barillot, Patricia Eifel, and Robin Hunter for checking the text of the manuscript for the respective chapters on “technique”, “dose calculation and treatment planning” and “dose, dose rate and fractionation”. We are grateful, also to J. Wilkinson from Manchester, for providing us with the dose distribution for the Manchester technique. We are grateful for support from C. Fellner, S. Fromm, and S. Wachter from the Vienna department of radiotherapy and radiobiology for support with providing the figures.