IMRT Course 2016

Adaptive RT: The fundamental, yet abstract picture…

Adaptive radiotherapy:

• explicitly acknowledge that radiotherapy treatment as a whole is a process

• this process is performed in presence of all kinds of uncertainties

• the uncertainties can be strongly patient-dependent

• uncertainties are understood as – stationary or non-stationary – random

processes

⇒ new understanding of an radiotherapy treatment process as ‘feedback control strategy’ …versus the conventional approach: single planning in the beginning without further actions/corrections later

ESTRO IMRT course 2016 Adaptive Radiotherapy London April 7th, 2016

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