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Further limitations of daily rigid isocentre adaptations: Deformable uncertainties

again: prostate…

G. J. van der Wielen et al. 2008:Deformation of prostate and seminal vesicles relative to intraprostatic fiducial markers. IJROBP 72(5)

CONCLUSION: Although prostate deformation with respect to implanted fiducial markers was small, the corresponding deformation of the seminal vesicles was considerable. Adding marker-based rotational corrections to on-line translation corrections provided a limited reduction in the estimated planning margins.

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