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20 tips and tricks for happy IMRT planning
start with an odd number of equidistant beams
but always remember that steep dose gradients can
ONLY
be obtained perpendicular to beam axes just like in 3DCRT
IMRT is not some magic tool, there is still always physics,
photons are uncharged particles and they just don’t bend around
corners no matter what
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contouring
beam setup
start
optimisation
evaluate
setting
objectives