Course book Advanced Treatment Planning 2018
Static IMRT vs VMAT - Conceptual issues
Is there any difference between static IMRT and VMAT?
• Use the same hardware • Can be virtually ‘ mapped ’ onto each other: – S-IMRT with infinite number of beams → VMAT – VMAT with infinitely small gantry speeds (quasi static) → S-IMRT
Courstesy of Jochem Wolthaus
Bortfeld and Webb, PMB 2009
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