IMRT

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 2015 Adaptive Radiotherapy Brussels October 8th, 2015

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