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Conventional RT and simulation

• At the end of previous century, patient set-up and the determination of treatment beams was mainly guided by using a treatment simulator and drawing skin marks on the patient’s surface, consequently used to position the patient with respect to the treatment machine

• only 35% of the radiotherapy centres were using a simulator for target localization in the treatment planning process in 1983, and only 47% had access to this equipment in 1986

Chu et al , IJROBP 1989.