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What Has Changed in the World of
Planning?
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Adaptive Radiotherapy
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Definition: “Adaptive radiotherapy involves changes to the
radiotherapy plan during treatment on the basis of patient
specific observations that were not taken into account during
initial planning”
(Gregoire et al., 2012)
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Incorporates systematic measurements of treatment variations
into a closed-loop RT treatment process
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Provides feedback to re-optimise the treatment plan early on
during the fractionated course of RT
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Delivers treatment that is customised to the
daily
patient
target volumes