IMRT Course 2016

This is where adaptive RT comes in!

planning CT

Fx 2

Fx 1

(IMRT) plan

Fx N

Fx i

…

…

use of margins!

some kind of imaging

IGRT

assumptions or knowledge about population-based uncertainties

setup correction, new margin&plan etc.

patient individual uncertainties (setup errors, organ motion…)

estimation/modeling of errors/uncertainties

“Feedback-loop”! This makes it ‘adaptive RT’!

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

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