IMRT

Dose calculation issues ‚in practice‘: Dose calculation for lung lesions

…and what actually happens:

dose distribution of static PTV plan… calculated in the different instance geometries of a 4D-CT

“Tissue-eye-view”

the actually relevant quantity: dose-to-the-moving-GTV

…and dose-to-the-moving- normal tissue!

ESTRO IMRT course 2015 Dose Calculation in Static and Rotational IMRT Brussels October 8th, 2015

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