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Different “Times”:
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Treatment slots:
reserved time on the machine, time from the patient entering the bunker,
until leaving the bunker
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Total treatment time:
time from the first MV photon hitting the patient until the last photon,
includes gantry rotation without beam
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Beam-on time:
time the therapeutic MV beam is actually on
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Dose accumulation pattern:
the way a tissue volume is accumulating dose from primary
beam during treatment
The vocabulary of “Treatment Times”