Target Volume Determination 2015

Target volumes • The British Institute of Radiology (BIR) published a report from an international working party attempting to do just this

… so we should discuss it too

• The BIR report (2003) is entitled:

‘Geometric Uncertainties in Radiotherapy – Defining the Planning Target Volume’

• ICRU 71 (2004) introduced this, but had less detail • ICRU 83 (2010) has additional advice