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Effect: Plan optimization
• Plans optimised for target and OAR’s
– OARs necessarily out of field (mostly)
• OAR dose limits the dose to target volumes (DVC’s)
• Clinicians use OAR doses for clinical decision making (eg mean dose
to heart)
• Dose to implanted devices (pacemakers etc)
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Adapted from
A. Ahnesjö