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Target volumes – OARs + PRVs
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Uncertainties apply to the OAR … so a ‘PTV margin’ can be
added around it ‐ to give the Planning organ at Risk Volume
(PRV)
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But … the use of this technique will substantially increase the
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May be smaller than PTV margin
Component for systematic error can often be smaller