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Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy

SBRT has been used since 1990s.

Six main “requirements” (as of 2005):

Secure immobilization

Accurate repositioning of the patient from planning

to treatment

Accounting for internal motion (breathing)

Highly conformal dose distributions

Registration to stereotactic frame (?)

Few fractions, high doses

Timmerman, Seminars Rad Ond, 2005